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took the letter, read it, tore it in four pieces, and threw it
into the waste-basket. Two or three days later, Mademoi-
selle Gillenormand heard her father, who was alone in his
room, talking aloud to himself. He always did this when-
ever he was greatly agitated. She listened, and the old man
was saying: ‘If you were not a fool, you would know that one
cannot be a baron and a lawyer at the same time.’