Wednesday, January 9, 2008

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You need have good cards, sir," said the spy. ¡¡¡¡"I'll ran them over. I'll see what I hold,- Mr. Lorry, you know what a brute I am; I wish you'd give me a little brandy." ¡¡¡¡It was put before him, and he drank off a glassful-drank off another glassful- pushed the bottle thoughtfully away. ¡¡¡¡"Mr. Barsad," he went on, in the tone of one who really was looking over a hand at cards: "Sheep of the prisons, emissary of Republican committees, now turnkey,

now prisoner, always spy and secret informer, so much the more valuable here for being English that an Englishman is less open to suspicion of subornation in those characters than a Frenchman, represents himself to his employers under a false name. That's a very good card. Mr. Barsad, now in the employ of the republican

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