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The Adventures of Harry Richmond

CHAPTER XXIV
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By the way, we'll have him in our service.

There was he plucking at me: "Monsieur Henri-Richie, Monsieur Henri-Richie! mille complimens...

et les potages, Monsieur!--a la Camerani, a la tortue, aux petits pois...

c'est en vrai artiste que j'ai su tout retarder jusqu'au dernier moment....

Monsieur! cher Monsieur Henri-Richie, je vous en supplie, laissez-la, ces planteurs de choux." And John Thresher, as spokesman for the rest: "Master Harry, we beg to say, in my name, we can't masticate comfortably while we've got a notion Mr.Frenchman he 's present here to play his Frenchified tricks with our plain wholesome dishes.


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