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All the men who had passed the day in the taverns came out at the sound of the hoarse cracked voice of the aged acrobat. As she hurled her poor old twisted shape from swinging bar to pole, she cried aloud, "Ah, messieurs, essayez ca seulement!"
For years she had had a desire to cast herself down at a confessional-box, but she had not done so because of one of the questions in the Petit Paroissien which she used: "Avez-vous péché, par pensée, parole, ou action, contre la pureté ou la modestie?" And because also of the preliminary injunction: "Maintenant essayez de vous rappeler vos péchés, et combien de fois vous les avez commis."
When the doctor whom they regarded as their friend came up to them, he brought with him another officer as interpreter, who said in broken French, "Voulez-vous donner votre parole pas essayez echapper?" Jack was as ignorant of French as of Russian, but Dick knew a little. He turned to Jack and translated the question.
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