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In the full blaze of an August afternoon Louis Blanc made Barbe take him up the hill to the Bois du Renard. They had locked up the buvette, and the red-haired girl led Bibi by the hand along the field-path to the wood. Her head shone like a piece of red metal close to the blackness of the man's coat; she had to watch the ground so that Bibi should not stumble.
"My God, but it is hellish to be blind! " he said; "I cannot even see you, you know."