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 Monsieur René d’Esparvieu, when he heard the unhappy curator’s alarming reports, used to answer drily:

“These books have been mislaid, they are not lost; look carefully, Monsieur Sariette, look carefully and you will find them.”

And he murmured behind the old man’s back:

“Poor old Sariette is in a bad way.”

“I think,” replied Abbé Patouille, “that his brain is going.”