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GILBERTE
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"And have you your mother's papers, your father's papers?"
"What papers?"
"Why, their birth-certificates, your own, their marriage-certificate, in fact, everything that established their position and now establishes yours."
"I haven't them."
"But they must be somewhere. ... Can you give me no clue as to where they are?"
"No. ... But I seem to remember once hearing them talk of papers that had been lost ... or rather burnt in a fire ... or else ... in fact, I can't say for certain." ...
"Come, come!" cried Maître Dufornéril. "We are on the wrong track altogether! Let us start from the beginning. Where were you born?"
"I don't know."
"How do you mean, you don't know?"
