The two children, picked up by some policeman and placed in the refuge, or stolen by some mountebank, or having simply strayed off in that immense Chinese puzzle of a Paris, did not return.
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5. 马戏团进城了,我们成了一队走错地方的江湖卖艺人。
The circus is in town, and we have become a band of travelling minstrels and misfits.