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'Why not sleep there to-night? I suggested carelessly. 'Sleep there! he repeated with a stare. 'But there are no hotels in that part of the world. 'Oh, bless you, yes! said I. 'You try the Blue Boar. You will find it almost as handy as sleeping in the booking-office, without nearly so strong a smell of kippers and dirt.
For her part, she most certainly would not eat haddock or kippers for dinner; she had too much self-respect to do such a thing, so she boiled or roasted a leg of mutton for her own repast and the maids'. I do not say that she was wrong; and, indeed, M. Zola never forced people to eat what they did not care for.
The names of the towns are Flemish; the names of the streets are Flemish; the names over the shops are Flemish; but the goods for sale are marmalade, tinned kippers, The Daily Mail, and the Pink 'Un. "Is it your people who are selling these things?" I asked an English officer. The question amused him. "Our people won't think of it until the war is over," he said, "but the French are different.
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