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UN ACCIDENT

The old man coujd hardly make both ends meet.

+ Do no: sit on the bare stone, you will catch cold. + A few Peasants, with their Caps under their arms, were kneel-

ing near à pillar.

When do you intend to have your house repaired ?

+ In the corner Opposite there were two new-born children who

were going to be baptized. We are poor, and so have few triends.

Out of twelve candidates nine have been admitted.

. The curate always went out on Tuesdays, Fhursdays, and

Saturdays at two o’clock precisely.

Let us go, at the risk of coming back if there is no one there.

. Do you not inwardly regret the good fre you have just left ?

It was on a Saturday evening, a day when all the shops remain open very late,

I must take my weekly deposit to the savings-bank. re far from suspecting it,

perceived a workman kneeling near the high altar, Few cooks knew better how to make à market penny.

+ They looked upon themselves as perfectly honourable, because

they had neither killed nor stolen.

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* The man, whose ‘ace I could no:

rough voice,

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