Note {291} — APPENDIX.
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When the learned member made use of this remarkable phrase he probably had in his mind the suggestive query of Agnès, si les enfants qu’on fait se faisaient pas l’oreille? But the flower of rhetoric here gathered was beyond the reach of Arnolphe’s innocent ward. The procreation in such a case is even more difficult for fancy to realise than the conception.