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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.