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Then when the couvre-feu had sounded, when all public places were closed, when the night watchman had begun his rounds, Deroulede knew that his quest for that night must remain fruitless. But he could not rest. In and out the tortuous streets of Paris he roamed during the better part of that night. He was now only awaiting the dawn to publicly demand the right to stand beside Juliette.
We all know what fact of English history is laid up in 'curfew, or 'couvre-feu. The 'limner, or 'illuminer, for so we find the word in Fuller, throws us back on a time when the illumination of manuscripts was a leading occupation of the painter. To 'subscribe' the name would more accurately express what now we do.
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