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Page 11
... bargains does not skulk away , as though she had been foiled in some shabby design . When the old workman just now remarked to me that Mont Blanc was showing herself amazingly to - day in the crystal air , his approach was full of ...
... bargains does not skulk away , as though she had been foiled in some shabby design . When the old workman just now remarked to me that Mont Blanc was showing herself amazingly to - day in the crystal air , his approach was full of ...
Page 37
... bargaining is at its height all over the Places , and the length of the winding streets . market carts are drawn up in rows ; the dogs , who have brought the milk to town , are lying panting in their heavy harness , while their ...
... bargaining is at its height all over the Places , and the length of the winding streets . market carts are drawn up in rows ; the dogs , who have brought the milk to town , are lying panting in their heavy harness , while their ...
Page 40
... bargain . They are born soldiers of the centime , and every day fight the gallant battle of the rouge liard toughly ... bargaining . You see there is a difference between the buyer and seller , of two sous - an entire penny ! You would ...
... bargain . They are born soldiers of the centime , and every day fight the gallant battle of the rouge liard toughly ... bargaining . You see there is a difference between the buyer and seller , of two sous - an entire penny ! You would ...
Page 41
... bargain ended , and the forget - me - not nodding under the old man's arm , the enemies laugh together . The business is much more serious in the Canal au Fromage , behind the cathedral , albeit the flower - buying is as much part of ...
... bargain ended , and the forget - me - not nodding under the old man's arm , the enemies laugh together . The business is much more serious in the Canal au Fromage , behind the cathedral , albeit the flower - buying is as much part of ...
Page 42
... bargain . But I had no reason for my embarrass- ment or ill - temper . My position as purchaser of fourteen greengages ( half a quarteron ) was solitary when compared with that of a lady who presently opened negotiations near me for the ...
... bargain . But I had no reason for my embarrass- ment or ill - temper . My position as purchaser of fourteen greengages ( half a quarteron ) was solitary when compared with that of a lady who presently opened negotiations near me for the ...
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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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