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French language. The big black letters formed the words,
‘Offices of the Porvenir.’ From these offices a single folded
sheet of Martin’s journalism issued three times a week; and
the sleek yellow Anzani prowling in a suit of ample black
and carpet slippers, before the many doors of his establish-
ment, greeted by a deep, side-long inclination of his body
the Journalist of Sulaco going to and fro on the business of
his august calling.

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