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If rather less, then rather cheaper; and as to making the slightest difference in style on account of our late pursuits, as whether, for instance, we were a retired candlestick-maker, or a Lord Chancellor, or a physician, the very idea would savour of lunacy. Not so Jacques Coeur.
"You understand life, my dear Mrs. Potiphar. Here you are, speaking very little French, in a city where the language is an atmosphere, and where you are in no sense acclimated until you can speak it fluently with all French life shut out from you living in a hotel cheated by butcher, baker, and candlestick-maker going to hear plays that you imperfectly understand to an opera where you know nobody, and where your box is filled with your own countrymen, who are delightful, indeed, but whom you didn't come to Paris to see constantly buying a hundred things because they are pretty, and because you are in Paris entirely ignorant, and quite as careless, of the historical interests of the city, of the pictures, of the statues, and buildings surrounded by celebrities of all kinds, of whom you never heard, and therefore lose the opportunity of seeing them in fact, paying the most extravagant price for everything, and purchasing only the consciousness of being in Paris why, you ought to be happy, and considered to be having a fine time of it, if you are not?
Cooke undertook it with the idea of being able to put the merits of the proposition before the people direct not through the agency of any great financial corporation and of selling to the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick-maker the stock or shares that he wished to dispose of. It was a brilliant chance.
If, through sponsorial neglect or cruelty, the name of our butcher or baker or candlestick-maker happens to be John, with the further and congenial addition of Smith, JOHN SMITH it is on sign-board, pass book, and at the top, and sometimes at the bottom, of the monthly bills, in living and familiar characters.
The former is a kind of arcade which contains everything that any reasonable person could require; fragrant fruit and flowers, fresh-smelling vegetables, and the wares of butcher and baker and candlestick-maker, all laid out on booths and stalls for the world to choose from.
He rose from his knees feeling that he was surely coming into his own again. It was more than a mere gasp of temporary relief with him, and his wife shared his optimism; but Mary would not let him buy back her piano, and as for furs spring was on the way, she said. But they paid the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick-maker, and hired a cook once more.
But nowadays, when the butcher and baker and candlestick-maker and everybody else do it just alike, the custom seems to me to have lost its charm. I never did enjoy having things exactly as every one else has them, all going in the same direction like a flock of sheep. I would like my little wedding to be something especially my own.
I have no doubt," said Lady Marney, "that we shall have some monster of the middle class, some tinker or tailor, or candlestick-maker, with his long purse, preaching reform and practising corruption: exactly as the liberals did under Walpole: bribery was unknown in the time of the Stuarts; but we have a capital registration, Mr Tadpole tells me.
Camille mentioned the Englishman approvingly to three other friends of Attalie, when, with what they thought was adroitness, they turned conversation upon her pecuniary welfare. They were Jean d'Eau, a slumberous butcher; Richard Reau, an embarrassed baker; and one Ecswyzee, an illiterate but prosperous candlestick-maker.
Riley rolled up his sleeves and his eyes, flung his arms about, wept and shrieked unknown tongues for twenty minutes. Then the butcher, the baker, and candlestick-maker had a combined convulsion on the floor, rolling over each other and upsetting furniture. By this time the hotel was roused and the landlord made us a call. "What the Old Harry are you about?" he demanded, angrily.
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