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GERMINAL

alone to the settlement, saying that he would follow him; and he entered and sat down in the Avantage, awaiting the departure of a client to tell Rasseneur decisively that he should write to Pluchart to come at once. His resolution was taken; he would organise a private meeting, for victory seemed to him certain if the Montsou colliers adhered in a mass to the International.

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