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Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas père
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look, examined the fisherman for some time, while the latter
smiled, with that smile half cunning, half silly, peculiar
to French peasants.

"Do you speak English?" asked Monk, in excellent French.

"Ah! but badly, my lord," replied the fisherman.

This reply was made much more with the lively and sharp
accentuation of the people beyond the Loire, than with the
slightly-drawling accent of the countries of the west and
north of France.

"But you do speak it?" persisted Monk, in order to examine
his accent once more.

"Eh! we men of the sea," replied the fisherman, "speak a
little of all languages."

"Then you are a sea fisherman?"

"I am at present, my lord -- a fisherman, and a famous
fisherman too. I have taken a barbel that weighs at least
thirty pounds, and more than fifty mullets; I have also some
little whitings that will fry beautifully."

"You appear to me to have fished more frequently in the Gulf
of Gascony than in the Channel," said Monk, smiling.

"Well, I am from the south; but does that prevent me from
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