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Page 11
... classes ; one of the principal ladies in the city sitting on the same bench with a couple of vendors of Swiss carvings . About the open - air buffet , at the little tables , are people of all degrees of fortune ; and the master of the ...
... classes ; one of the principal ladies in the city sitting on the same bench with a couple of vendors of Swiss carvings . About the open - air buffet , at the little tables , are people of all degrees of fortune ; and the master of the ...
Page 30
... classes with whole- some nourishment and profitable occupation , and his lordship was distinguished from all others , as the doctor said , by recognising the claims and furthering the interests of the poor . ' ' A queer way of feeding ...
... classes with whole- some nourishment and profitable occupation , and his lordship was distinguished from all others , as the doctor said , by recognising the claims and furthering the interests of the poor . ' ' A queer way of feeding ...
Page 51
... classes fall in with it , understand the complex ' correspondence ' arrange- ments of the omnibuses ( which failed utterly in London , because the conductors could not keep accounts on the steps of the vehicle as the French conducteur ...
... classes fall in with it , understand the complex ' correspondence ' arrange- ments of the omnibuses ( which failed utterly in London , because the conductors could not keep accounts on the steps of the vehicle as the French conducteur ...
Page 54
... class . They all know what a good dinner means ; and there is a peremptory return of any item served to them that is not up to their standard of fair cookery . Old gentlemen are very fond of dining under Amélie's auspices ; and they are ...
... class . They all know what a good dinner means ; and there is a peremptory return of any item served to them that is not up to their standard of fair cookery . Old gentlemen are very fond of dining under Amélie's auspices ; and they are ...
Page 64
... class , in their Sunday clothes ( it was Sunday evening ) , were gathering their dinners , making up their menus as they saw how the market of the day lay . ' Now I dare say , Monsieur Fin - Bec , ' said Madame Barbizon , looking archly ...
... class , in their Sunday clothes ( it was Sunday evening ) , were gathering their dinners , making up their menus as they saw how the market of the day lay . ' Now I dare say , Monsieur Fin - Bec , ' said Madame Barbizon , looking archly ...
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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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