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 1        I|        against him.~ ~“He is a hard case,” men said; “and if
 2       XI|     suffered cruelly. Exile is hard to bear. But if sorrows
 3       XI|     but I am an old man; it is hard for me to decide to make
 4      XII|     been bold; and she will be hard to please if she is not
 5      XII|       an affront in silence is hard. Still, he is brave, there
 6      XIV|      of more than a million in hard cash.~ ~“Do you know that
 7      XIX| thousand francs.~ ~“He must be hard to please, if he is not
 8     XXVI|       s end.~ ~“And it will go hard with soldier or civilian
 9  XXXVIII|  thunderstruck.~ ~He struggled hard to regain his composure.
10        L|        standing about idle was hard indeed.~ ~But now——~ ~Every
11       LI|        Blanche would have been hard to please if she had not
12     LIII|   condemned to twenty years of hard labor, and sent to Brest.~ ~