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The six passengers occupied the upper end of the conveyance, the representatives of revenued society, serene in the consciousness of its strength—honest well-to-do people possessed of Religion and Principles.

From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 Boule de Suif and Other Stories by Maupassant, Guy de