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one would think that all the cooks in the world on some great merry-meeting with the barbers, by joint consent had said—Come, let us all go live at Paris: the French love good eating—they are all gourmands—we shall rank high; if their god is their belly—their cooks must be gentlemen: and forasmuch as the periwig maketh the man, and the periwig-maker maketh the periwig—ergo, would the barbers say, we shall rank higher still—we shall be above you all—we shall be [1]Capitouls at least—pardi! we shall all wear swords———
—And so, one would swear, (that is by candle-light,—but there is no depending upon it) they continue to do, to this day.
- ↑ Chief Magistrate in Toulouse, &c. &c. &c.
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