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The Life of Froude

CHAPTER II
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They will put a deal table into the said boudoir for me, and if living under a noble roof has charms for me I have that at least to console myself with.

I can't tell about your coming.

There may be a rising in September, and you may be tempted to turn rebel, you know; and I don't know whether you like porridge, or whether a straw bed is to your--not 'taste,' touch is better, I suppose.

It is perfectly beautiful here, or it would be if it wasn't for the swarm of people about one that are for ever insisting on one's saying so.

Between hotel-keeper and carmen and boatmen and guides that describe to my honour the scenery, and young girls that insist on my honour taking a taste of the goats' milk, and a thousand other creatures that insist on boring me and being paid for it, I am really thankful every night when I get to my room and find all the pieces of me safe in their places.


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