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The two women to whose unvarying kindness all my comfort had been owing, were made happy with satin-stripe, cassis, and the inevitable nicotiana. In an unguarded moment my soft heart was betrayed into giving a bottle of absinthe to the large old person who claimed to be Forteune's mamma.
I made him au-fait as to my intentions, produced, as "mata-bicho," a bottle of gin, and sent a dash of costa-fina, to which a few yards of satin-stripe were thrown in. The gin was drunk with the usual greed, and the presents were received with the normal objections. "Why should not I, a king like Nessudikira, receive a 'dash' equal to his?" "He is my host, I pay him for bed and board!"
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