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displayed his white and sharp teeth. "You have not guessed rightly! Such as you see me, I am a sort of philosopher, and one day perhaps I shall go to Paris to rival M. Appert, and the man in the little blue cloak."
"And will that be the first time you ever took that journey!"
"Yes, it will! I must seem to you by ne means curious, but I assure
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you that it is not my fault I have delayed it so long—it will happen one day or the other."
"And do you propose to make this journey very shortly?
"I do not know; it depends on circumstances which depend on certain arrangements!"
