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the success of his journey.
After this, satisfied with the way in which he had con-
ducted himself at Meung, without remorse for the past,
confident in the present, and full of hope for the future, he
retired to bed and slept the sleep of the brave.
This sleep, provincial as it was, brought him to nine
o’clock in the morning; at which hour he rose, in order to
repair to the residence of M. de Treville, the third personage
in the kingdom, in the paternal estimation.

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