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had on the spirits of an acquaintance with 
whom he was making a tour in Normandy, in 
the first summer after the restoration of Louis 
XVIII, “He had been induced to join a small 
party and leave his home, for the first time, to 
visit the opposite coast; but so truly British 
were his habits, that nothing could please or 
satisfy him. The soup was meagre, the pottage 
acid, the peas sweet, the wine sour, the coffee 
bitter; the girls brown, their eyes too black, 
their caps too high, their petticoats too short, 
their language unintelligible ; their houses old, 
the inns dirty, the country too open, the roads 
too straight: in short, he saw everything with 
such discontented eyes as to render the party 
uncomfortable, until good fortune led us to a 
rustic inn, where, in a small garden, were 
growing several fine Stocks, which, he affirmed, 
were the first good things he had seen since he 
left Sussex. On hearing the landlady acknow- 
ledge them to be de Girofliers de Brompton, he 
insisted on halting at her house, where he 
treated the party with a dejeuner d la fourchette, 
and left the village with a sprig of the Brompton 
Stock in his button-hole, his eyes sparkling 
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