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that he would make me a present of them; my entreaty was 

 rejected. 



"Not at all, not at all; I will give you some others." 

 "But these please me very much." "Nonsense; you are 

 joking!" "Not at all, I assure you." "I cannot consent that 

 such flowers should come from me ; if it were known that I 

 had given them I should subject either my collection or my 

 friendship to animadversion." He was inflexible. 



Do not imagine that I invent or exaggerate ; seek for an 

 amateur of auriculas, and read to him this passage of my 

 letters. I can assure you beforehand that he will not smile, 

 that he will see nothing ridiculous in it, that he will say his 

 brother amateur was right, perhaps even a little too indul- 

 gent. In addition to the florist's lesson, this is a chapter to 

 add to the rights of man. You now know what are the 

 duties of auriculas, and I hope you will see how to make 

 them perform them. 



