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'I say, he said. 'What's the game? J'ai jete cinq francs sur huit, I tell you, moi! A forgotten idiom from the days of boyhood and French exercises came to him. 'Moi qui parle, he added. 'Messieurs, faites vos jeux, crooned the croupier, in a detached manner.
Huit Heures du Travail, Huit Heures du Loisir, Huit Heures du Repos. The mayor, in undress, that is to say in garments of every day, having surveyed these preparations, returned to his estaminet, the Plat d'Or, and there folded his newspapers as usual for the day's distribution.
In the meantime the French people grew weary of fat old Louis the Eighteenth, whose name of "Louis Dix Huit" was changed by the French as a joke into "Louis Des Huitres," or Louis of the Oysters, so fond was the old gourmand of his shellfish.
On page 7 of the school record there is the following notice: "No. 460. Honore Balzac, age de huit ans un mois. A eu la petite verole, sans infirmites. Caractere sanguin, s'echauffant facilement, et sujet a quelques fievres de chaleur. Entre au pensionnat le 22 juin, 1807. Sorti, le 22 aout, 1813.
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