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The needy John of Luxemburg sold her to the English for ten thousand livres, and the Duke of Burgundy received political favors. The agent employed by the English in this nefarious business was Couchon, the Bishop of Beauvais, who had been driven out of his city by Joan, an able and learned man, who aspired to the archbishopric of Rouen.
Gautreau arrived at the hospital alone, on foot; he sat down on a chair in the corner, saying: "No need to hurry; it's only a scratch." We gave him a cup of tea with rum in it, and he began to hum: En courant par les epeignes Je m'etios fait un ecourchon, Et en courant par les epeignes Et en courant apres not' couchon. "Ah!" said Monsieur Boissin, "you are a man! Come here, let me see."
Cheese was tenpence; potatoes from five to ten shillings a bushel. 'A reasonable loaf of good soft Bread' cost sixpence. Soap was a shilling a pound. Tea was prohibitive for all but the officers. 'Plain Green Tea and very Badd' was fifteen shillings, 'Couchon' twenty shillings, 'Hyson' thirty. Leaf tobacco was tenpence a pound, roll one-and-tenpence, snuff two-and-threepence.
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