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A Start in Life

CHAPTER IV
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"I never leave home without taking my cup of coffee and cream." "Don't you eat anything between meals?
How bourgeois, Marais, Place Royale, that is!" cried Georges.

"When he 'blagued' just now about his crosses, I thought there was something in him," whispered the Eastern hero to the painter.

"However, we'll set him going on his decorations, the old tallow-chandler! Come, my lad," he added, calling to Oscar, "drink me down the glass poured out for the chandler; that will start your moustache." Oscar, anxious to play the man, swallowed the second glass of wine, and ate three more cheese-cakes.
"Good wine, that!" said Pere Leger, smacking his lips.
"It is all the better," said Georges, "because it comes from Bercy.

I've been to Alicante myself, and I know that this wine no more resembles what is made there than my arm is like a windmill.

Our made-up wines are a great deal better than the natural ones in their own country.


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