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... numerous shops . Choosing the very nearest hotel , they were soon seated in a pleasant room , overlooking the shipping ; a plentiful breakfast was set before them , and , having their business yet to transact at the Custom House , they ...
... numerous shops . Choosing the very nearest hotel , they were soon seated in a pleasant room , overlooking the shipping ; a plentiful breakfast was set before them , and , having their business yet to transact at the Custom House , they ...
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... numerous manufactories , a court - house , called the Palais de Justice , of great beauty ; and , in the Place de la Pu- celle , is a very grand house , ornamented with a series of tablets , representing the Field of the Cloth of Gold ...
... numerous manufactories , a court - house , called the Palais de Justice , of great beauty ; and , in the Place de la Pu- celle , is a very grand house , ornamented with a series of tablets , representing the Field of the Cloth of Gold ...
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... numerous decora- tions quite to the top . You have seen nothing like them . " Just then , the diligence turned up a nar- row street , where the second stories of the houses projected so much as to obscure the daylight ; whilst the nine ...
... numerous decora- tions quite to the top . You have seen nothing like them . " Just then , the diligence turned up a nar- row street , where the second stories of the houses projected so much as to obscure the daylight ; whilst the nine ...
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... numerous ; the houses higher than in the Rue St. Honoré , having , as it were , one room perched upon another in the roofs to an alarming height . Having got out of their carriages in order to see the statue better , they perceived a ...
... numerous ; the houses higher than in the Rue St. Honoré , having , as it were , one room perched upon another in the roofs to an alarming height . Having got out of their carriages in order to see the statue better , they perceived a ...
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... numerous nor so splendid as yours ; we have not your purses to pay with , " said M. Borghers . " But you have many far grander things , " cried Frederick eagerly , as thinking he ought to make l'amende ; " that fragment from Luxor is ...
... numerous nor so splendid as yours ; we have not your purses to pay with , " said M. Borghers . " But you have many far grander things , " cried Frederick eagerly , as thinking he ought to make l'amende ; " that fragment from Luxor is ...
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