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He was inquiring about the sales of his book. Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.
And Victor Hugo was already a famous and successful writer at the time, so I guess he could afford to publish straight to book... Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.
