EBOOK THREE CITIES: LOURDES, VOL. 3 ***
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and David Widger [widger@cecomet.net]
THE THREE CITIES
LOURDES
BY
EMILE ZOLA
Volume 3.
TRANSLATED BY ERNEST A. VIZETELLY
THE THIRD DAY
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BED AND BOARD
AT seven o'clock on the morning of that fine, bright, warm August Sunday,
M. de Guersaint was already up and dressed in one of the two little rooms
which he had fortunately been able to secure on the third floor of the
Hotel of the Apparitions. He had gone to bed at eleven o'clock the night
before and had awoke feeling quite fresh and gay. As soon as he was
dressed he entered the adjoining room which Pierre occupied; but the
young priest, who had not returned to the hotel until past one in the
morning, with his blood heated by insomnia, had been unable to doze off
until daybreak and was now still slumbering. His cassock flung across a
chair, his other garments scattered here and there, testified to his
great weariness and agitation of mind.
"Come, come, you lazybones!" cried M.
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