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6. VI.

Fantine's native place had changed.

M. Madeline—an angel, and inventor of jetwork,
had been teaching the villagers how to make spurious
jet!

This is a progressive age. Those Americans—
children of the West—they make nutmegs out of
wood.

I, myself, have seen hams made of pine, in the
wigwams of those children of the forest.

But civilization has acquired deception too. Society

is made up of deception. Even the best French
society.

Still there was one sincere episode.

Eh?

The French Revolution!