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Les Miserables
The episcopal palace of D   adjoins the hospital. The episcopal palace was a huge and beautiful house, built of stone at the beginning of the last century by M. Henri Puget, Doctor of Theology of the Faculty of Paris, Abb© of Simore, who had been Bishop of D   in 1712. This…
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Chapter 1. Marseilles  The Arrival. On the 24th of February, 1815, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d’If, got on board the vessel between Cape Morgion and Rion island.
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The Last of the Mohicans
 “Mine ear is open, and my heart prepared:    The worst is wordly loss thou canst unfold:    Say, is my kingdom lost?” Shakespeare It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered before the adverse hosts could meet. A wide…
