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And Doublon, quite accustomed as he was to these instruments of torture, forthwith went, as if it were the simplest thing in the world.

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Tall Cointet quietly sat himself down at his desk and took out a small sheet of paper with a thirty-five centime stamp upon it, chatting as he did so with Doublon as to the standing of some of the local tradesmen.

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“Here, Doublon, be so good as to step round and ask Postel and Gannerac to put their names to this declaration, and bring it back with you tomorrow morning.”

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“Very well,” said Cerizet, “let Doublon be in wait at the Palet Gate about ten minutes before sunset; tell him to post his gendarmes, and you shall have our man.”

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The appearance of a bailiff at a house door is an event in a country town, and Doublon had come far too often of late.

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On the 10th, Doublon obtained an execution warrant, and attempted to put in an execution on the 12th.

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Rubempre, endorsed to order of Metivier, and finally to our order, matured the thirtieth of April last, protested by Doublon, process-server, on the first of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-two.fr. c.

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Cointet the elder did not choose to appear in the affair; but the fat Cointet openly said that he was acting for Metivier, and went to Doublon, taking Cerizet with him.

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Maitre Cachan, Petit – Claud, and Doublon, did better than the Austrian generals; they took for their example Quintus

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“Of his money?” asked Doublon, with a knowing look.

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