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They then consisted of 7639 volumes, besides 14,236 original rolls, charters, deeds, and other documents, and these were removed to the British Museum, where they found a safe and suitable resting-place.
"That I hear; but what were you doing to make any one so cruel?" "Périne only looking at pretty bright figures, mother; so pretty with the light on them. 7639." "What is she talking about?" said Madame Didier, puzzled, "7639?" "Yes, yes," said the girl eagerly, and then she broke off again into her lamentations, which lasted until Marie had bathed her hurt, and soothed her by degrees.
In point of mere size, the Royal library ranks third among the four great collections acquired by the British Museum at the time of its foundation the Harleian numbering 7639 MSS.; the Sloane, 4001; the Royal, 1950; the Cottonian, 900. Of the three others we have ample details; their hoards have been thoroughly ransacked, and there are scarcely any surprises for the student.
As for No. 7639, which had brought Leblanc in pursuit of Périne, it did not turn out so romantically as might have been desired, having nothing to do with the great robbery of the Rue Vivienne, which remains a mystery to most people to this day.
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