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8. VIII.
M. Madeline was M. le Maire.
This is how it came about.
For a long time he refused the honor. One day
an old woman, standing on the steps, said:
“Bah, a good mayor is a good thing.
You are a good thing.
Be a good mayor.”
This woman was a rhetorician. She understood
inductive ratiocination.
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