His eyes fall to the notes, and his face registers both shock, and disbelief. Cholera has had Paris in its grip for most of the year, and was not finished with it by the time they died. It is not possible to have come through these months without knowing someone affected in some way by it. Some of the students at the university died, many more workers and their families, uncounted poor people who will only ever become a number because of it.
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His eyes fall to the notes, and his face registers both shock, and disbelief. Cholera has had Paris in its grip for most of the year, and was not finished with it by the time they died. It is not possible to have come through these months without knowing someone affected in some way by it. Some of the students at the university died, many more workers and their families, uncounted poor people who will only ever become a number because of it.
'...no, surely not.'