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he sought to correspond with her by means of letters which he traced on his hand with a piece of charcoal of which he had made the precious discovery in his stove; he would have formed the words letter by letter, in succession.
il voulait correspondre avec elle au moyen de caractères qu’il traçait sur sa main avec un morceau de charbon dont il avait fait la précieuse découverte dans son poêle ; il aurait formé les mots lettre à lettre, successivement.