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He turned the pages with his thumb, stopped at a certain one, opened the book wide on the stove, and read, "'De Denasatis, it is here." And he continued, "Bucca fissa usque ad aures, genezivis denudatis, nasoque murdridato, masca eris, et ridebis semper." "There it is for certain." Then he replaced the book on one of the shelves, growling.
When Gwynplaine had been old enough to understand, Ursus had read and explained to him the text of Doctor Conquest de Denasatis, and in another folio, Hugo Plagon, the passage, Naves habensmutilas; but Ursus had prudently abstained from "hypotheses," and had been reserved in his opinion of what it might mean. Suppositions were possible.
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