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When Octave went down on the morrow at eight o'clock, he was greatly surprised to find the entire house acquainted with the attack of the night before, and the desperate condition of the landlord. The house, however, was not concerned about the patient: it was solely interested in what he would leave behind him.
The Pichons were seated before some basins of chocolate in their little dining-room. Jules called Octave in.