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The lamp at the street corner was suddenly extinguished, leaving absolute darkness. "Fermez vos rideaux!" shouted a hoarse voice. Footsteps went hurriedly down the pavement and then were silent. "It is nothing!" said the woman; "a false alarm!" "Listen!" Paris was very quiet now. The bugle-notes were as faint as far-off bells against the wind. But there was no wind, and the air was still.
There are grey faces at the seats of the money-changers, for war, the scourge of small cords, seems preparing for the overturning of their tables, and the castigation of their persons. Lewis and George rang the bell in the Faubourg St. Honoré on a Monday afternoon, and asked for Lord Rideaux.
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