A store with an abundance of wild strawberries, which only bear fruit for a shorttime in the spring

NEWS 142: THE POLITICAL HIGH-LIVERS: (France.) －Hum!... hum!... that seems to me to be a pretty poor dish!

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Caricaturana 24: Cabs as stocks: It's not going well, my horse is failing, expenses consume me, I'm dying of hunger. －My poor Bertrand, how stupid you are! Exchange your turkey-hen for a thoroughbred, your old 1200 quid carriage for a tilbury, your livery misery of a jockey's silk, go to it... Capital thrrrrrree hundred thousand francs! Doughty deeds, random tricks, will increase your out-goings, lessen your gains, you'll recoup your losses in abundance!! －In abundance of what? －In abundance of shares, fool!!

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TRAGICO-CLASSICAL PHYSIOGNOMIES 2: For whom are these Serpents which hiss on your heads?.. (Andromache, furies of Orestes)

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PARLIAMENTARY IDYLLS 13: Before the session opens anew. / Let us harvest the fruits that Pomona grants us. / Come, says Thiers to Molé, let us make a store / Of a few apples of discord

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NEWS 24: A RECONCILIATION (A scene from high comedy): －I embrace you, but still hold a grudge against you! － I press you to my heart, but you’ll pay for it!

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EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 30: －Oh my dear, when you've got a dog you should never have a husband!... only yesterday mine had a thing about refusing a chiken wing to Mimire, he only wanted give him a leg!... －There need to be men who're fierce!..

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LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 11: A DINNER AT VÉRY’S: So! I've just dined as a bachelor!... yes! but my wife entrusted me with a louis and I've got left... sixty centimes!

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Friends 4: Madame Cabassol goes for a sentimental walk in the Jardin des Plantes[?] with the youngest friend of her husband. An unforeseen meeting with the latter, not far from a deer

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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

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Caricaturana 17: We're shareholders of the agricultural and arch-fib institute of Coëtbo, of Pysigno-trap, formerly the sanitary society of Mors-Lycos, of the warranty paper for thieves, of the Hoax, a very political newspaper, and of a group of other philanthropic operations; we've just received our dividends and we're using them to eat on a pleasure trip... waiter, another sou's worth of cheese!

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JOURNEY TO CHINA 2: THE PASSPORT. The foreigner who visits China is submitted to an indispensable formality; he receives a slip of paper on which is written the age he wants to indicate, the profession he says he pursues and the place where it pleases him to appoint his birth; all that followed by a description of particulars which applies to everybody, after which, against a consideration of two francs, the Chinese government is deemed to lend him succour and assistance for one year

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Ancient History 29: Telemachus and Mentor. Seeing his languorous pupil. / Burning for Eucharis with a fire always new / Mentor, with a punch, pitched him straight into the water / To make him abandon the island (Unique quatrain by Mr. Duponchel)

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Sketch Taken at the Salon by Daumier: A fantastic painter: － See, look how I visualise the apotheosis of a martyr... － But I can make out only the legs of your figure. －The head's already in the sky... that proves he's a saint!..

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LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 84: RECEPTION OF A FREE-MASON: We know from a reliable source that you are here among us only to unveil our secrets to outsiders... your guilty schemes will be frustrated... I have just received order to plunge this dagger into your breast!..

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Strangers in Paris 9: What are called the seductions of Paris: A stall, see master... this evening you’ll hear Madame Dorus-Grasse and Mr. Bariolhé sing... an excellent stall in the pit... twelve francs...cheaper that at the [ticket] desk!

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Strangers in Paris 3: What is called dining in a restaurant: －Waiter!...I've been in your establishment for an hour and a quarter without having a chair...and you've still only given the tooth-picks to my wife who's dying of hunger... you'll make me lose my normal posture, and I'll end up with my feet in the dish... do you understand, waiter! －There now, Sir... there there now, there there!!!

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Ancient History 43: Œdipus at the Spinx's. This ugly animal with the head of an antiquary, / Said to him: Why, Sir, can you not count / On a pyramid? Then without hesitation / Œdipus replied: It's because they are near Cairo? You can be grateful for an old pun (Lesson by Mr. Raoul-Rochette)

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JOURNEY TO CHINA 19: CHINESE WORRIORS. All Chinese men have the right, from six to eight times a year, to carry a rifle, a cartridge-pouch, and even to wear a fur cap; then they apply themselves, more or less voluntarily to night patrols which have as their goal the maintenance of public peace. Only it happens quite often that the chief named KA-PO-RAL takes infinite trouble to prevent his warriors singing at the tops of their voices “mother GO-DI-CHON” or other Chinese ballads, and it is by waking with a start that the good citizens learn that their rest is being watched over

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PASTORALS 40: －Needless to say, I've got to cross this devil of a small wood to get home... I'm angry at having stayed so late at neighbour Rigolard's so as to make a hundred at piquet... if I'd thought I'd have made only half a hundred

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NEWS 25: Mr. CRÉMIEUX LOOKING FOR AN APPARTMENT: －If I rent this lodging, I would like the proprieter to take down this dreadful portrait... oh! but, Good God, it's a mirror!..

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THE EATERS OF HORSEFLESH 13: － You see... I've just done my shopping myself!... I invite you to dine tomorrow... one can't say that its a first-class horse, but the broth from it can only be better!..

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Caricaturana 20: TO ALL THOSE PEOPLE WHO HAVE CAPITAL TO LOSE; For one hundred francs, one and a quarter centimes, in order to eat every twelve hours... THERE'S AN INVESTMENT!! / New principles. We divide the interest in centimes and by the hour... THERE'S A TRICK!!! Guarantees offered to shareholders. The manager takes the society's money and puts some of it in the bank... THERE'S A BANK!!!! Capital...We won't tell you, you've got to see it to believe it... IF YOU WANT BUSINESS, HERE IT IS!!!!!!!!

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BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 15: THE OLD ROUÉE: So I'm going to be a door-keeper in the rue du Mont-Blanc in a large house where my husband says they'll call us porters. So I'm going to leave this ramshackle place where there're only four tenants who give me five sous apiece for a New Year's present... Scum!!!..

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The Blue-stockings 13: － Sir, excuse me if I inconvenience you a little... but you understand that I’m now writing a new novel, and I need to consult a multitude of old authors!... －(The Gentleman, aside) Old authors!... Heavens, she should have consulted them while they were alive, for she must have been their contemporary!..

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