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de Villefort may prove the moral and political physician of this province; if so, he will have achieved a noble work.”

“To give you pleasure, my sweet Renée, I promise to show all the lenity in my power; but if the charges brought against this Bonapartist hero prove correct, why, then, you really must give me leave to order his head to be cut off.”

“Why, if my information prove correct, a sort of Bonapartist conspiracy has just been discovered.”

The Eagle did not prove ungrateful to his deliverer, for seeing the Peasant sitting under a wall which was not safe, he flew toward him and with his talons snatched a bundle from his head.