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<noinclude>{{work}}</noinclude>==== CHAPTER VII—The Old Heart and the Young Heart in the Presence of Each Other ====
 
==== CHAPTER VII—The Old Heart and the Young Heart in the Presence of Each Other ====
 
At that epoch, Father Gillenormand was well past his ninety-first birthday. He still lived with Mademoiselle Gillenormand in the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6, in the old house which he owned. He was, as the reader will remember, one of those antique old men who await death perfectly erect, whom age bears down without bending, and whom even sorrow cannot curve.
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The octogenarian raised his hands to his temples two or three times with an expression of anguish, recoiled tottering, and fell back into an armchair, pulseless, voiceless, tearless, with quivering head and lips which moved with a stupid air, with nothing in his eyes and nothing any longer in his heart except a gloomy and profound something which resembled night.
 
 
 
 
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