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CHAPTER XV
Then the marionette, losing his courage, was on the point of throwing himself on the ground and giving himself up as conquered, when, looking around, he saw in the middle of a dark forest, shining afar, a candied house, white as snow. “If I have enough breath to reach that house, perhaps I shall be saved,” he said to himself. And without delaying a minute, he began to run through the forest as fast as he could. The assassins still followed him.
Finally, after a desperate run of two hours, he arrived, out of breath, at the door of the house and knocked. No one replied. He knocked again with great force because he heard approaching
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