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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 13, No. 357, February 21, 1829

Note (return) — SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

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But, it must that I begin. I am a gentleman, and my goods are in the public rentes,12 and a chateau with a handsome propriety on the bank of the Loire, which I lend to a merchant English, who pay me very well in London for my expenses. Very well. I like the peace, nevertheless that I was force, at other time, to go to war with Napoleon. But it is passed. So I come to Paris in my proper post-chaise, where I selled him, and hire one, for almost nothing at all, for bring me to Calais all alone, because I will not bring my valet to speak French here where all the world is ignorant.

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