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And a half, because there are such five, six, and seven-story profitable houses, packed to overflowing and cheap, on top of which are erected still other sorry bug-breeders of roof iron, something in the nature of mansards; or more exactly, bird-houses, in which it is fearfully cold in winter, while in the summer time it is just as torrid as in the tropics.
Above the Gerards, in one of the mansards upon the sixth floor, lived a printer named Combarieu, with his wife or mistress the concierge did not know which, nor did it matter much. The woman had just deserted him, leaving a child of eight years.
For instance, in a law suit which took place at Paris in the month of November, 1886, between M. Popp, constructor of pneumatic city clocks, and financiers who had been backing him, certain engineers and chemists of the School of Mines declared that gold could be extracted from common silex, so that the very walls sheltering us might be placers, and the mansards might be loaded with nuggets!
Above the Gerards, in one of the mansards upon the sixth floor, lived a printer named Combarieu, with his wife or mistress the concierge did not know which, nor did it matter much. The woman had just deserted him, leaving a child of eight years.
Le Raincy, which I had intended to visit at all events on the same day, but afoot, offered me the roofs of its ancient château, a pile built in the most pompous spirit of the Renaissance, and whose alternately round and square pavilions, tipped with steep mansards, I was fain to people with throngs of gay visitors in the costume of the grand siècle.
Above the Gerards, in one of the mansards upon the sixth floor, lived a printer named Combarieu, with his wife or mistress the concierge did not know which, nor did it matter much. The woman had just deserted him, leaving a child of eight years.
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