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Bohemians of the Latin Quarter

CHAPTER XVI
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I will send it once a week to each of them, at his home in the bosom of his family; in the very heart of his private life.

It shall trouble their domestic joys; they shall find their roasts burnt, their wines sour, and their wives bitter! They will grow mad rapidly, and go to the Institute in strait-waistcoats.

Ha! Ha! The thought consoles me." Some days later, when Marcel had already forgotten his terrible plans of vengeance against his persecutors, he received a visit from Father Medicis.

So the club called a Jew, named Salomon, who at that time was well known to all the vagabond of art and literature, and had continual transactions with them.

Father Medicis traded in all sorts of trumpery.
He sold complete sets of furniture from twelve francs up to five thousand; he bought everything, and knew how to dispose of it again, at a profit.


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