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When Frantz Mathéus and the pastor reached the house, everybody there was asleep. The pastor, leaving Mathéus at the door of the sitting-room, went into the kitchen, and returned after a few minutes with a light.
Calmness had succeeded the good man's agitation; he mechanically followed his host, who conducted him to a little bedroom on the first-floor, looking into the parsonage garden.