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fter that unhappy ending I left
                            Naples and Lombardy and on and
                            on and on I walked. About sixty
                            years later I arrived exhausted in
                            Paris. I was not in the mood to
                            help anyone, least of all to hold a
           fine conversation, because Basile had made me sure
           of this: to do good to donkeys you get kicks in
           exchange.
             I also lost my passion for hunting, and I often
           starved, like so many poor French men and women,
           while their immensely rich king lived in the Château
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