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... THE RULER OF THE ROAST . 129 XII . THE QUEEN OF SKIRTS 142 XIII . TWELVE O'CLOCK HUNTERS 154 XIV . MADAME BARBIZON'S CASH TEMPLE . 168 XV . MADAME FIN - BEC ' AT HOME ' . 177 THE CUPBOARD PAPERS . INTRODUCTION . ROUSSEAU'S ISLAND , GENEVA.
... THE RULER OF THE ROAST . 129 XII . THE QUEEN OF SKIRTS 142 XIII . TWELVE O'CLOCK HUNTERS 154 XIV . MADAME BARBIZON'S CASH TEMPLE . 168 XV . MADAME FIN - BEC ' AT HOME ' . 177 THE CUPBOARD PAPERS . INTRODUCTION . ROUSSEAU'S ISLAND , GENEVA.
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... . The service of a French dinner , like the Queen of Spain , has no legs . This ease upon profoundly meditated order , is a delightful quality to be enjoyed seldom save in Paris . At the great Swiss hotels , E 2 DINING WITH AMÉLIE . 51.
... . The service of a French dinner , like the Queen of Spain , has no legs . This ease upon profoundly meditated order , is a delightful quality to be enjoyed seldom save in Paris . At the great Swiss hotels , E 2 DINING WITH AMÉLIE . 51.
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... Queen Victoria's lieges . A similar manifestation happened on the Rhine boat , when the waiters handed round sirops , and ices , and fruit . Britishers must have Bass ; and a sirop and fruit in the broiling sun are barbarisms beneath ...
... Queen Victoria's lieges . A similar manifestation happened on the Rhine boat , when the waiters handed round sirops , and ices , and fruit . Britishers must have Bass ; and a sirop and fruit in the broiling sun are barbarisms beneath ...
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... queens and redoubtable chiefs after a quarter of one of Monsieur Tournebroche's poulets , eaten within sight of the spits . Yonder poor , clean - faced actor has just bought a little bunch of black grapes at a barrow ; and in his pocket ...
... queens and redoubtable chiefs after a quarter of one of Monsieur Tournebroche's poulets , eaten within sight of the spits . Yonder poor , clean - faced actor has just bought a little bunch of black grapes at a barrow ; and in his pocket ...
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... moment , and we were in a hurry ; and I was glad of it , because Baker did remind me of Boltt , and of the worst side of Boltt into the bargain . CHAPTER XII . THE QUEEN OF SKIRTS . Ir was THE RULER OF THE ROAST . 141.
... moment , and we were in a hurry ; and I was glad of it , because Baker did remind me of Boltt , and of the worst side of Boltt into the bargain . CHAPTER XII . THE QUEEN OF SKIRTS . Ir was THE RULER OF THE ROAST . 141.
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Academy Notes Amélie Author bargain baronne basket BESANT and JAMES better Bloomsbury Baker boiling Boltt bread BRET HARTE cake Celestine centimes CHARLES GIBBON cheap cloth extra cloth limp Coloured cook Crown 8vo Cupboard Papers dear delightful Demy 8vo dinner dish Edited eggs England English Essay Facsimile Faubourg francs French hand honour husband JAMES PAYN JAMES RICE JULIAN HAWTHORNE JUSTIN MCCARTHY kitchen labourers Lady Southdown Larive laughed live London look LYNN LINTON MACQUOID Madame Barbizon Madame Michaux MARK TWAIN market-place meat Monsieur Fin-Bec Monsieur Tournebroche morning never numerous Illustrations observed onion OUIDA Paris Poems poor Portrait Post 8vo pot au feu Queen of Skirts Reginald Rosalie Ruggles Pick salad Small 8vo soup sous stalls taste Three Vols travelled vegetables W. H. MALLOCK WALTER BESANT wife WILKIE COLLINS woman
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