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Je t'embrasse. How gets on the German? "We have such a specimen of the gandin here the Vicomte de Gars. I think John Catt had better make haste over. "Yours affectionately, Miss Carrie Cockayne to Miss Sharp. "Rue Millevoye. "My dearest Emmy, No answer from you? How unkind! But still I continue to give you my ideas of the moment from this. What do we want?
There is not much tattooing amongst the men, except on the shoulders, whilst the women prefer the stomach; the gandin, however, disfigures himself with powdered cam-wood, mixed with butter-nut, grease, or palm oil a custom evidently derived from the coast-tribes.
At all events, they had more of the timber of heroism in them than those diplomatic Carlists of the gandin order, who are Carlists because it makes them interesting in the sight of the ladies, but whose campaigning is confined to an occasional three days' incursion on Spanish territory, with a cook and a valet, saddle-bags full of potted lobster and pâté de foie gras, and a dressing-case newly packed with au Botot and essence of Jockey Club.
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