My first happiness year in my life was with Ayesha, Never before had I been so happy
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All are happy at the big party. Never before had eunuchs seen so big a party as the one for Ayesha
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We have the same gestures, even though Ayesha was not born from my stomach
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LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 71: A STEEPLE-CHASE WINNER: -So you confirm that I came in first... -My dear chap you were magnificent... everybody envies your lot!..
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TODAY'S PHILANTHROPISTS 12: -So then, my friend, at the age of twenty two you had already killed three men... what a powerful nature, and how guilty society is for not having better guided it!... -Oh! yeah sir!... in my view the police have been very wrong... without them I wouldn't be here!..
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SKETCHES OF EXPRESSIONS 38: The Charade: My first of my lot still keeps going... Horse...Silver...Public Road...good heaven!!!...that's not going
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TRAGIC PHYSIOGNOMIES 10: OEDIPUS -In piercing him, I myself felt in my soul, / All victorious as I was... you tremble, madam!
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"Okesa Watermelons" grown in Sado had been shipped out the island from the early Showa period
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THE DOOR-KEEPERS OF PARIS 4: - If you are not of the nobility, it's useless my showing you this appartment I let only to titled people
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Conjugal Manners 29: This is the moment (past midnight) when calm and peace truly reign in happy households. Better late than never
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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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LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 62: THE DAQY WHEN YOU HAVE TO DISPLAY GALLANTRY: -How much is that big bouquet?... -Ten francs -Good God!... and this little here? -Fifteen francs -Damnation!..
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NEWS 15: - These poor animals... they're so disfigured that you can't even recognise them... they who've been such good friends for five years!... oh! Mister Barbaroux, we're living in truly sad times!..
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The Blue-stockings 3: Goodbye, my dear, I am going to my editors’..
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PARISIANS TYPES 29: Discomfort in talking to people who have a mania for putting thier story into action. -Yes dear Sir, do you think that the rrrrascal was allowed to laugh in my face. You know I won't stand for that. So, I punched him... there, like that, do you see, and I shook you... there, like that... vigorously
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NEWS 268: TWENTY YEARS AFTER. ARAGO -Once upon a time, it was different. CREMIEUX -Let's remember that
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Parisian Emotions 27: That's the limit! I have bought four sizes, just like those there, in my life; Fifine, my first girlfriend; Cocotte, that wench Cocotte! big Mimi, and my wife, like that up there in the corner
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NEWS 184: AN UNLUCKY FIGHTER: See, here, my friend Léon, gulp this down for me... it's Argenteuil balsam...it's worked every time one of my men has been unwise enough to separate from my gang and has got a frightful beating up!...another time, don't go out alone against the majority!..
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NEWS 48: SQUINTING: To be sure, I didn't recognise you! -Oh! that's because I've been operated on, I don't squint any more, that changes me completely don't you think? -Oh! completely, because before I think you squinted inwards...
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Conjugal Manners 27: The first born
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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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TRIVIAL THINGS 1: Eleven degrees centigrade! what a bad turn it gives you! and they call this a year of mercy!
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LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 100: A FILIAL HOMMAGE: Yes, it's Leonidas... it's certainly Leonidas...(The happy father deems it necessary to become tender because he recognises Leonidas.)
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LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 12: A day of the 1st performance
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LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 33: A SAINT’S DAY AND DAY OF BRACES: -Here my sweetheart... on the occasion of my Saint’s day I’ve embroidered these braces!... -(The gentleman, aside.) Good God I’ve already got eleven pairs of them in my drawer... I won’t get away with it this time for less than fifty crowns!... women really take too great an advantage of our wearing trousers, so as to make us wear braces!..
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When I went to give blessings, I loved to talk to the women and to hear their joys and their sorrows
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I had little gajras (flower bracelets) of jasmine made to welcome each guest
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All are happy at the big party. Never before had eunuchs seen so big a party as the one for Ayesha
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We have the same gestures, even though Ayesha was not born from my stomach
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Chaman invited us to Faridabad, to impress Dayanita with his new house
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Eunuch guest
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Orphans begging rotating a rim (Ueno Station)
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ODALISQUE
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Kōtojiboārudaininotoshibukea。kokoha、abijantoburukina fasowomusubutetsudounochuukeitenda。
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Performers of the Casino Theater
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ODALISQUE
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Fair of the Throne, Paris
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Shalu dances on Ayesha's second birthday
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Oroku's room
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Lala, Sichuan Province
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Backstage (Kokusai Theater, Asakusa)
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On his arrival each eunuch was greeted by me with a garland of jasmine flowers. Ayesha's first birthday
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祭り
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Local Beauty Parlor
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Black Market, Shimbashi
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Girls carrying portable shrine, Asakusa
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Musician and dancer
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(Portrait of bride)
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