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The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2

Note 18 — LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT.—THE HOUSE OF WEEPING.

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In the original, the word is Fenster schweiss, window-sweat, i. e. (as the translator understands the passage) Monsieur Flitte was suspected of a design to swindle the company by exhibiting his two windows streaming with spurious moisture, such as hoar frost produces on the windows when melted by the heat of the room, rather than with the genuine and unadulterated rain which Mr Kabel demanded.

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