"Alas, no, Monseigneur! But he lies yonder, under a little heap of poor grass."
"Well?"
"Monseigneur, there are so many little heaps of poor grass?"
"Again, well?"
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She looked an old woman, but was young. Her manner was one of passionate grief; by turns she clasped her veinous and knotted hands together with wild energy, and laid one of them on the carriage-door --tenderly, caressingly, as if it had been a human breast, and could be expected to feel the appealing touch.
"Monseigneur, hear me! Monseigneur, hear my petition! My husband died of want; so many die of want; so many more will die of want."
"Again, well? Can I feed them?"
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