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scribes her own character exactly when she stands in the middle, of the room and says with a tragic voice, fc Je snis juste, Monsieur, je snis bonne; mais, Monsieur, jo snis isr/wf'/1 She is excellent and generous on all great occasions, but I never knew any one who had such a power of ma-king people uncomfortable by petty grievances and incessant fidgeting. Though she will give me fifty times more food than I wish, nothing on earth would induce her to liglit the lire in my bedroom, even in the most ferocious weather, because it is not fc,sw& hnhitudcC fc La
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bonne Providence* m'a tlonnrf un canu'-t^rt1/ B!H? Haiti the other day, reeotmtmg lu^r history. 4 Avee cu eauutthrt* j$ai fait un manage de convtntaiu*^ avocj M. Barraud: avec, eo caract^rc% clt4tut vuuvis j*ai prw ma petite fille de clou'/e ann, at j« HIIIH vomit* i"i Paris pour fairo joner son talent: av(»d (*,« caractcn*, cjuaiul Urn fils do num umri m1ont fait dt»H mauvaiMcs tourndoB, jo n'ai rictn (lit, mais jo Itm ai c[uittdH pour toujours, parct*cjua jo n'ai i>as voulu voir la nom th» 1 From " Days noar Paris.**f old pictutvH of the e««h«lfritii'H ruu~ neeted with the plan*. Arthur, of emuw% peiipled tin* whole plaee in imagination ami doHcrijitiou with the li^uivK of the past* and insisted on utir * walking in pr«MTSHi«»tj* t«f tw*») down tin* rttinecl church.