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I shall know how to die, though I am the victim of ill-fortune, of fatal circumstance. I shall go to meet my two friends. I am accused of having treacherously murdered them. There is a
Providence above us! If there is such a thing as an immortal soul, I shall see Hippolyte and Auguste Ballet again.
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