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This, however, was not the worst, for as soon as they were all scraped together and set right again, the other Countess's partner attacked Jorrocks most furiously, calling him a sacré-nom de-Dieu'd bête of an Englishman, a mauvais sujet, a cochon, etc., then spitting on the floor the greatest insult a Frenchman can offer he vapoured about being one of the "grand nation," "that he was brave the world knew it," and concluded by thrusting his card "Monsieur Charles Adolphe Eugene, Confiturier, No. 15 bis, Rue Poupée" into Jorrocks's face.
If other thoughts vapoured upon the borders of his mind, they were of the dinner he would eat, soon after noon, at the house of one of the frilled, white-muslin teachers. He was serene.
It has two appendices, concerning divination and fascination; these have rather vapoured forth fables than kindled truth. The knowledge respecting the faculties of the mind is of two kinds, the one respecting understanding and reason, and the other respecting will, appetite, and affection, the imagination being active in both provinces.
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