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And the Englishman returning home tells his friends of the queer fellow with whom he dined over there "an awfully good chap, you know" who owned all sorts of jolly paintings Rousseaux and things and did not even know the names of the artists: "Had to ask his wife, by Jove!"
Eventually the Subaltern picked out a volume by Ségur, not because he wanted to read about war, but because he feared that the Voltaires, the Rousseaux, and the Hugos would be too difficult for him. Ségur was easy: one could skip whole phrases without losing his gist: one was not worried by the words one did not know.
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