A young woman carrying a feast for the spirit of ships on New Year's Eve

PARISIAN SKETCHES 42: A protest [for non-payment] on New Year's day... what luck!..

THE TEMPTATION OF THE NEW St. ANTHONY: In that particular time, a great and fat sinner named Véron felt himself touched by grace: having reflected that the Press was a priesthood, he became a hermit and retired to a wild place in the midst of the steepest mountains of Montmartre. There, he spent his days and nights in prayer, and as a means of mortification, imposed upon himself as a penitence the continual re-reading of the list of subscribers to the Constitutionnel. －For his only food, Véron took at long intervals a light fragment of Regnauld pâté. －The Devil, irritated by this edifying yet unexpected conversion employed different strategies to make St. Véron succumb to his temptations, but our noble coenobite knew how to resist those things which until recently had held so many charms for him: Satan, who had taken the form of the Constitutionnel in order come in person to tempt St. Véron, returned to the road for Paris, furious. －The anchorite of Montmartre has, since this time, been placed in the rank of the greatest saints which Parisian journalism honours, and is especially supplicated by the unfortunates who have a head cold

NAUTICAL IMPRESSIONS. NAUTICAL THRILLS: Mr. PRUDHOMME. －What..., impudent waves!... do you indeed not know whom you are carrying at this moment, since you are so bold towards me?... understand that, like Xerxes, I am able to have you lashed!... Mrs. PRUDHOMME (Trembling all over) －Oh!... my dear... I beg you!... don't be impertinent to it, you'll put it in a rage and it's capable of swallowing us up!..

JOURNEY TO CHINA 4: THE SEAFARERS' HOTEL. He who says hotel-keeper －in China－ and above all in a seaport, says patent thief... if you bring to his notice that he counts dinners that you have not ordered －errands that you have not had [him] make －waiters who have not served you －expenses for transporting luggage for which you have paid, he replies graciously: Suh, we always count that, always... that is the Chinese habit!... Editer's note: This habit also exists in certain French sea ports

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