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1     XIII| allowed to read the concluding lines:~ ~“One must live, my dear
2      XXV|        the room to write a few lines to a lady friend, whose
3     XXVI|   about to strike!”~ ~Only six lines in all—but each word was
4      XXX|  courage!”~ ~Beneath these few lines was the letter M.~ ~But
5     XXXI|        a moment to trace these lines:~ ~“I know Lacheneur’s retreat,
6    XXXIV|        In exchange for a dozen lines that threatened~ ~you with
7    XXXVI|     plough than the pen.~ ~The lines zigzagged toward the top
8      LIV|            CHAPTER LIV~ ~A few lines of the article consecrated