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- “You haven’t read the newspapers and you are not to read them. Nothing that they can say matters in the least. One thing alone matters: our interview with Prasville. Besides …”
- He took a little bottle from a cupboard and, putting his hand on Clarisse’s shoulder, said:
- “Lie down here, on the sofa, and take a few drops of this mixture.”
- “What’s it for?”
- “It will make you sleep for a few hours … and forget. That’s always so much gained.”
- “No, no,” protested Clarisse, “I don’t want to. Gilbert is not asleep. He is not forgetting.”
- “Drink it,” said Lupin, with gentle insistence. She yielded all of a sudden, from cowardice, from excessive suffering, and did as she was told and lay on the sofa and closed her eyes. In a few minutes she was asleep.
- ***
- The Crystal Stopper, Chapter 11
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