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For thirty francs in money or goods, servants, and especially country servants, will sometimes conclude a bargain on which the chineur makes a profit of a thousand or two thousand francs.
If we could but know the history of such and such a service of Sevres porcelain, pate tendre, we should find that all the intellect, all the diplomatic subtlety displayed at Munster, Nimeguen, Utrecht, Ryswick, and Vienna was surpassed by the chineur.
No one can imagine the Scapin's roguery, the tricks of a Sganarelle, the wiles of a Dorine by which the chineur contrives to make a footing for himself. These comedies are as good as a play, and founded indeed on the old stock theme of the dishonesty of servants.
Her abrupt, unthinking movement told Remonencq that success was sure. In the chineur's way of business the chineur, be it explained, goes about the country picking up bargains at the expense of the ignorant in the chineur's way of business, the one real difficulty is the problem of gaining an entrance to a house.
If we could but know the history of such and such a service of Sevres porcelain, pate tendre, we should find that all the intellect, all the diplomatic subtlety displayed at Munster, Nimeguen, Utrecht, Ryswick, and Vienna was surpassed by the chineur.
No one can imagine the Scapin's roguery, the tricks of a Sganarelle, the wiles of a Dorine by which the chineur contrives to make a footing for himself. These comedies are as good as a play, and founded indeed on the old stock theme of the dishonesty of servants.
For thirty francs in money or goods, servants, and especially country servants, will sometimes conclude a bargain on which the chineur makes a profit of a thousand or two thousand francs.
Her abrupt, unthinking movement told Remonencq that success was sure. In the chineur's way of business the chineur, be it explained, goes about the country picking up bargains at the expense of the ignorant in the chineur's way of business, the one real difficulty is the problem of gaining an entrance to a house.
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