Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert
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One day, the 12th of December, 1845, about nine o’clock in the morning, the cook brought up a letter to his room. The address, which was in big characters, was written in a hand he was not familiar with; and Frederick, feeling sleepy, was in no great haste to break the seal.

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