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He put behind him bright dreams of an accumulated competence, and settled down to the hard day's work of cultivating the acquaintance of agitators, visiting their homes and watching their activities, getting samples of the literature they were circulating, stealing their letters and address-books and note-books, and taking all these to Room 427 of the American House.
He came back to his writing-table and sat down before it in despair. But that did not reassure him. He took out one or two of the books that stood there in a row directories and address-books they appeared chiefly to be and found his name written in each, with here and there a note or a correction, all in his own handwriting.
Yet tears coursed down his cheeks, for, working with Maurice day by day, he had conceived real friendship for him. The silence fell again. Morange, as if unconscious of what went on around him, as if he were quite alone there, continued walking softly hither and thither like a somnambulist. Beauchene, with haggard mien, went off, and then came back carrying some little address-books.
He turned about for another moment, and finally sat down at a writing-table which had been brought out of Maurice's room. Little accustomed as he was to grief, he instinctively sought to divert his mind, and began searching in the little address-books for the purpose of drawing up a list of the persons who must be invited to the funeral.
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