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from the stable opposite. That he spoke EngHsh 

 about as well as a French porter at Calais was 

 subsequently a drawback, when it came to words 

 like surcingle and hold -all, and the beautiful 



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The fat ostlei' boy. 



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kitchen with the tiled floor and the high settles 

 (and we are compelled to add, the spittoons) was 

 not permitted to us. For us was reserved the 

 fusty decorum of an upper parlour, obviously 



