Table Talk: Or, Selections from the Ana. Containing Extracts from the Different Collections of Ana, French, English, Italian, and German. With Bibliographical Notices |
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... ordered the servant to announce M. Racan . He was received with transport . He talked for a long time of Ma- demoiselle Gournai's works , which he had studied 1 on purpose , and took his departure , leaving 16 TABLE - TALK .
... ordered the servant to announce M. Racan . He was received with transport . He talked for a long time of Ma- demoiselle Gournai's works , which he had studied 1 on purpose , and took his departure , leaving 16 TABLE - TALK .
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... servant announced another M. Racan . She thought at first that her visitor had forgot something , and had returned on that account . She was just preparing to address him , when a stranger entered and saluted her with much gravity ...
... servant announced another M. Racan . She thought at first that her visitor had forgot something , and had returned on that account . She was just preparing to address him , when a stranger entered and saluted her with much gravity ...
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... servants . One of them observed that he gave his maître d'hotel a hundred pistoles ; a se- cond , that he allowed his six hundred ; “ And I , ” said one , 66 I go far beyond either of you , for I al- low mine four thousand francs per ...
... servants . One of them observed that he gave his maître d'hotel a hundred pistoles ; a se- cond , that he allowed his six hundred ; “ And I , ” said one , 66 I go far beyond either of you , for I al- low mine four thousand francs per ...
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... valet - de- chambre , he found two bottles of wine , which the servant had placed there in order to quench his thirst during the night . He immediately concei- ved they were poison , and forced him to drink 24 TABLE - TALK .
... valet - de- chambre , he found two bottles of wine , which the servant had placed there in order to quench his thirst during the night . He immediately concei- ved they were poison , and forced him to drink 24 TABLE - TALK .
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... SERVANTS . In France , servants always walk before their masters . It is otherwise in Italy . Masters walk before their servants in summer , on account of the dust , and in winter behind them , on account of the badness of the roads ...
... SERVANTS . In France , servants always walk before their masters . It is otherwise in Italy . Masters walk before their servants in summer , on account of the dust , and in winter behind them , on account of the badness of the roads ...
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