and what is most rare is, that in a village, in the forest, at the meet, there was the same service as there would have been in Paris.

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One day, when the king was expecting the Emperor Charles to dinner, word came that he had slipped away, and had gone to give a sudden surprise to the constable, just as he was sitting down to table, and to dine with him and all his comrades comradewise.