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Page 230 - ... added to his dignity. He spoke in a slow, measured tone, with his hands behind his back and his eyes fixed on the ground. He maddened me particularly when he read aloud the Psalms to himself behind his partition.
Page 280 - No less than two hundred and fifty cubic feet of air space shall be allowed for each person in any workroom where persons are employed during the hours between six o'clock in the morning and six o'clock in the evening, and not less than four hundred cubic feet of air space shall be provided for each person in any one workroom where persons are employed between six o'clock in the evening and six [o'clock] in the morning.
Page 103 - Owen had risen from his seat and was walking up and down the room emphasizing his words with excited gestures. "As for not trying to find out wot side is right...
Page 79 - He rushed across to her and, taking her by the scruff of the neck, hissed: " Go and tell them I've got the child. . . . They can come and fetch it at my place, Rue Chateaubriand.
Page 273 - I don't know when I shall have the pleasure of seeing you again. If you have the least communication to make to me, one line in the agony column of the Journal will be sufficient. Just head it, 'M. Nicole.