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IV
The Bunch of Keys
It was about two o’clock and everything was very quiet in the village, for most of the people were taking their after-dinner nap. Mother Marie was dozing on the bench beside the cottage door, Nichette imagined. Probably the folk in the Queen’s palace were asleep, too; for most of them were elderly persons whose chief exercise was snoring after dinner,—and a musical exercise it was, to say truth!
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