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Robert laughs at me sometimes for pushing about the chairs and tables in a sort of distracted way, but it's the very instinct of making a sympathetical home, that works in me. We were miserably off in London.
I couldn't tuck myself in anyhow.
And we enjoy in proportion these luxurious armchairs, so good for the Lollards. People say that the troops which pass before our windows every few days through the 'Arc de l'Etoile' to be reviewed will bring the President back with them as 'emperor' some sunny morning not far off.
As to waiting till _May_, nobody expects it.
There is a great inward agitation, but the surface of things is smooth enough.
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