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Emma had wept, grown angry; she had accused Charles
of this misfortune. Monsieur Lheureux, a draper, who hap-
pened to be in the coach with her, had tried to console her
by a number of examples of lost dogs recognizing their mas-
ters at the end of long years. One, he said had been told of,
who had come back to Paris from Constantinople. Another
had gone one hundred and fifty miles in a straight line, and
swum four rivers; and his own father had possessed a poo-
dle, which, after twelve years of absence, had all of a sudden
jumped on his back in the street as he was going to dine in
town.

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