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 | | And, again without a doubt, he would at once have drawn those proper conclusions had he not chosen to look at the papers he found on his desk. |
 | | I stood to attention while he flipped through themand found, at the very top, the false, lying, and moronic accusations that that jackass of a local Feldgendarmerie sergeant had lodged against me. As he read this fantastic farrago of falsehoods, his eyebrows rose higher and higher. |
 | | A sign in her window announced her as a Liseuse De Pensées, a thought-readerand, for the benefit of German troops benighted enough to seek out her services, also as a Wahrsagerin, a lady soothsayer. |
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