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obtain a coat and a room in which to receive the illustrious visitor I am daily expecting."
"He is right! he is right!" said the prisoners; "any one can see he is a gentleman!"
"Well, then, lend him the twenty francs," said the keeper, leaning on the other shoulder; "surely you will not refuse a comrade!"
Cavalcanti in Prison.
"I am no comrade of these people," said the young man, proudly, "you have no right to insult me thus."
"Do you hear him?" said the keeper, with a disagreeable smile; "he rates you handsomely. Come, lend him the twenty-five francs—eh!" The thieves looked at one another with low murmurs, and a storm
