Chapter I: The Present Tense

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1. He does not know what he is saying. 2. For a year I have been pursuing these gypsies. 3. We know that they rob travelers every day. 4. But the officers of the law never hit upon them. 5. The gypsies laugh again. 6. We laugh again. 7. What we can not do no one can do [it]. 8. We repeat that not only have they robbed him but they have assassinated him.