Excerpt from Ninety-Three: Two Volumes in One; Bug Jargal-Claude Gueux
The thicket was-one of birch-trees, beeches, and oaks; the ground ilat; the thick moss and grass deadened the sound of the men's steps; there were no paths, or only blind ones, which quickly disappeared among the holly, wild Sloes, ferns, hedges of rest-barrow, and high bram bles. It would have been impossible to distinguish a man ten steps off.
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