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Some days before his celebrated appearance among the "Cinq Cents," his friends advised him to repair thither well armed, and attended with troops. "Si je me presente avec des troupes (disait Napoleon), c'est pour complaire
"Toute leur etude etait de se complaire et de s'entr'aider." * PAUL ET VIRGINIE. At the foot of a steep, slippery, white hill, near Dunstable, in Bedfordshire, called Chalk Hill, there is a hut, or rather a hovel, which travellers could scarcely suppose could be inhabited, if they did not see the smoke rising from its peaked roof.
They then also bound about the females with much vivacity, and appear by "l'etalage de leurs vives couleurs chercher a attirer l'attention des femelles, lesquelles ne paraissaient indifferentes a ce manege, elles nageaient avec une molle lenteur vers les males et semblaient se complaire dans leur voisinage."
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