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heart, which serves but to make these etchings the stronger—we see, spell, and put them together without a dictionary.
Ha, ha! hee, hee! cried La Guyol and La Sabatiere, looking close at each others prints—Ho, ho! cried La Batterelle and Maronette, doing the same:—Whist! cried one—st, st,—said a second,—hush, quoth a third—poo, poo, replied a fourth—gramercy! cried the Lady Carnavallette;—'twas she who bewhisker'd St. Bridget.
La Fosseuse drew her bodkin from the knot of her hair, and having traced the outline of a small whisker, with the blunt end of it, upon one side of her upper lip, put it into La Rebours's hand—La Rebours shook her head.
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