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À votre place, j’aurais décliné une charge si délicate ; vous aviez une excellente raison à donner, c’était que nos sujets doivent toujours marcher deux à deux et que votre communauté n’est pas assez nombreuse pour en détacher deux membres.
In your place, I would have declined so delicate a charge; you had a good excuse to hand, namely, that our men have always to go out in pairs and your community is not sufficiently numerous to spare two men.
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