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Three persons were seated at the table, the most noticeable of whom was a dissipated-looking young man, dressed in the extremity of the prevailing mode, with ruffles of the finest colbertine, three inches in depth, at his wrists; a richly-laced cravat round his throat; white silk hose, adorned with gold clocks; velvet shoes of the same colour as the hose, fastened with immense roses; a silver-hilted sword, supported by a broad embroidered silk band; and a cloak and doublet of carnation-coloured velvet, woven with gold, and decorated with innumerable glittering points and ribands.
Both come from the Colbert collection, and were placed on the shelves of that glorious Colbertine library by the Librarian Baluze whose name I can never pronounce without uncovering my head; for even in the century of the giants of erudition, Baluze astounds by his greatness.
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