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Charges d'avoin', charges de ble: Trois dam's s'en vont les marchander." And so on through many verses, with a heartiness that was a good antidote to melancholy, even though it was no specific for a shipwreck.
Charges d'avoin', charges de ble: Trois dam's s'en vont les marchander." And so on through many verses, with a heartiness that was a good antidote to melancholy, even though it was no specific for a shipwreck.
Yet in less than three minutes, he sold it for four and a half, and when the buyer upbraided him with his former declaration, he shrugged up his shoulders, saying, il faut marchander. I don't mention this as a particular instance. The same mean disingenuity is universal all over France, as I have been informed by several persons of veracity.
"C'etait une dame très convenable," said one purveyor, and the others agreed. "Elle me paya écus sonnants," said another, "et toujours sans marchander." There was even present a more distinguished acquaintance of the past: a long-retired Commissaire de Police of the Quartier in which Mrs. Warren's hotel was situated.
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