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CHAPTER I.PUTTING ON THE SCREW.The cold on the 8th of February, 186-, was more intense than theParisians had experienced during the whole of the severe winterwhich had preceded it, for at… Mehr…

CHAPTER I.PUTTING ON THE SCREW.The cold on the 8th of February, 186-, was more intense than theParisians had experienced during the whole of the severe winterwhich had preceded it, for at twelve o'clock on that day Chevalier'sthermometer, so well known by the denizens of Paris, registered threedegrees below zero. The sky was overcast and full of threatening signsof snow, while the moisture on the pavement and roads had frozen hard,rendering traffic of all kinds exceedingly hazardous. The whole greatcity wore an air of dreariness and desolation, for even when a thincrust of ice covers the waters of the Seine, the mind involuntarilyturns to those who have neither food, shelter, nor fuel.This bitterly cold day actually made the landlady of the Hotel de Perou,though she was a hard, grasping woman of Auvergne, gave a thought to thecondition of her lodgers, and one quite different from her usual idea ofobtaining the maximum of rent for the minimum of accommodation. Digital Content>E-books>Fiction>Fiction>Fiction, SAP Digital >16<

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