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The conclusions were, in substance, that the amount for presents between lovers during the year should be reckoned at five hundred francs, but that in this computation should be included: the expense of expeditions into the country; the pharmaceutical expenses, occasioned by the colds caught from walking in the damp pathways of parks, and in leaving the theatre, which expenses are veritable presents; the carrying of letters, and law expenses; journeys, and expenses whose items are forgotten, without counting the follies committed by the spenders; inasmuch as, according to the investigations of the committee, it had been proved that most of a man's extravagant expenditure profited the opera girls, rather than the married women.
By the way, what the deuce are you burning all these lights for? 'I was examining this photograph, said Simon, handing to his brother a rather large unmounted silver-print photograph which had lain on his knees. 'What of it? Albert asked, glancing at it. 'Medical and Pharmaceutical Department, isn't it? Not bad.
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