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"On account of the burglary in an inhabited house, the lawyer told me, 'It's a safe thing. I shall have fifteen or twenty years at the galleys and a berth in the pillory to boot." "The galleys! but you are so weak you will die there!" cried the unhappy woman, bursting into tears. "How if I had enrolled myself among the white-leaders?" "But the galleys, oh! the galleys!"
"Stop a moment, then; all greenhorn that I was, I had an idea, may the devil burn me if I know why! that I would not care for the colic, that the malady would find too little in me to feed on, and that it would go elsewhere; in fine, that I would become one of the old white-leaders.
To be just, the two others die also, but at their ease; they take their time; take good care of themselves, and they may last a year, eighteen months at the most. After all, the trade is not so badly paid as some others, and there are some folks born already dressed, who hold out two or three years; but these are the old folks, the centenaries of the white-leaders.
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