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the door, ‘By the way, do you know the news?’
‘What news?’
‘That it is very likely,’ Homais went on, raising his eye-
brows and assuming one of his most serious expression,
‘that the agricultural meeting of the Seine-Inferieure will
be held this year at Yonville-l’Abbaye. The rumour, at all
events, is going the round. This morning the paper alluded
to it. It would be of the utmost importance for our district.
But we’ll talk it over later on. I can see, thank you; Justin
has the lantern.’

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