The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 14, No. 381, July 18, 1829 by Various
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quiet as a lamb. I had sworn not to leave him, and kept my word.
During the journey to the station of the brigade of gendarmerie, where I deposited him, he frequently cried out, "I am done--who could have thought it? and he had such a simple look too!" At the assizes of Versailles, Moiselet was sentenced to six months' solitary confinement. M. Senard was overpowered with joy at having recovered his hundred thousand crowns worth of diamonds. Faithful to his system of abatement, he reduced the reward one-half; and still there was difficulty in getting five thousand francs from him, out of which I had been compelled to expend more than two thousand: in fact, at one moment I really thought I should have been compelled to bear the expenses myself. * * * * * SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS THE TOYMAN IS ABROAD. "En fait d'inutilités, il ne faut que le nécessaire." |
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