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"Tereed Mr Blake "Get the, or never start And tens of thousands did, thanks to Father Chiniquy His public rallies beca people from all over Québec and the eastern United States People couldn’t sign up fast enough to take the pledge"

"All inspired by Ja friends," said Elizabeth

A ht Gaallery but saw only the wooden statue of General Wolfe looking down on the But still, the Chief Inspector had the impression the General hadn’t been alone So a To the story of two inspired madmen, two old friends

But there was another ustin Renaud, as also obsessed with the dead

"The sale of books last year," Gaan and immediately felt the shift in uarded "I understand it wasn’t very popular"

"No, within the English community it wasn’t popular," admitted Elizabeth "We eventually had to stop"

"Why?"

"Reactionaries," said Mr Blake "Perhaps not surprisingly the strongest opposition came from people who’d never even been in the Lit and His They just hated the idea on principle"

"And what principle ht that be?" asked Élish history," said Elizabeth "And any scrap of paper with English writing on it, every shopping list, every journal, every letter was sacred By selling soht"

Feelings As much as people tried to rationalize, tried to justify, tried to explain, eventually everything cah the books? How’d you decide what to sell?" Gamache asked

"We started in the basement, ones that were deemed unimportant when they came in and so stayed in boxes There were so many, I’m afraid ere overwhelmed and just sold them by the box load, happy to be rid of them"