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don't want to fight. Nevertheless the
sabre let it be, if you stick to it."
Ayvaz-Bey's second said that they were
very decided about it. Then they went
to seek a couple of broadswords, or short
swords, at the shop on the Quai d' Orsay,
and they agreed to meet at ten o'clock at
the little village of Parthenay, on the old
road to Sceaux. When they separated, it
was half-past eight.
Everybody in Paris knows that pretty
collection of about two hundred houses
whose inhabitants are richer, better behaved, and better educated than most of
our villagers. They till the soil as gardeners, and not as laborers; and through
the whole spring their lands are a paradise
on earth. A field of strawberry blossoms
spreads out like cloth of silver between a field
of currants and one of raspberries; whole
acres exhale the perfume of the black currant, delightful to the nose of the concierge.