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But your worships chuse rather that I give you the length, breadth, and perpendicular height of the great parish-church, or drawing of the facade of the abbey of Saint Austreberte which has been transported from Artois hither every thing is just I suppose as the masons and carpenters left them, and if the belief in Christ continues so long, will be so these fifty years to come so your worships and reverences may all measure them at your leisures but he who measures thee, Janatone, must do it now thou carriest the principles of change within thy frame; and considering the chances of a transitory life, I would not answer for thee a moment; ere twice twelve months are passed and gone, thou mayest grow out like a pumpkin, and lose thy shapes or thou mayest go off like a flower, and lose thy beauty nay, thou mayest go off like a hussy and lose thyself.
And so making all possible speed, from Ailly au clochers, I got to Hixcourt, from Hixcourt I got to Pequignay, and from Pequignay, I got to Amiens, concerning which town I have nothing to inform you, but what I have informed you once before and that was that Janatone went there to school. It was entirely owing to one of these misfortunes, or I had pass'd clean by the stables of Chantilly
Set down one livre more for that, quoth I. It was but last night, said the landlord, qu'un milord Anglois presentoit un ecu a la fille de chambre. Tant pis pour Mademoiselle Janatone, said I. Now Janatone, being the landlord's daughter, and the landlord supposing I was young in French, took the liberty to inform me, I should not have said tant pis but, tant mieux.
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