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rays of the sun above. There was Count B –, Baron H –,
Private-secretary U –, Councillor X –, and several others
of like note.
Heaven knows what these people would think, if they should
see the Lieutenant-colonel Chamberlain de Dressen lying in a
hammock, surrounded with students, merchants’ clerks, and ail
other kinds of low people.
"No,that would be impossible," muttered the lieutenant-
colonel between his teeth. "Necessity knows no law. I shall
be obliged, af any rate, to roost down there, for one must suffer
something for the purpose of sustaining his name, rank, and
dignity. I might, perhaps, have lain on a sofa, but in a hammock
– no, that will not do; that is a perfect impossibility."
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