Four Years in France. Beste Henry Digby
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Название: Four Years in France

Автор: Beste Henry Digby

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СКАЧАТЬ a proverb, cited by way of reprisal for a saying reported by a Norman; in contempt of the people of Champagne; "quatre-vingt dix-neuf moutons et un Champenois font cent bonnes bêtes."9 It is curious to find jokes, like our own on Yorkshire honesty and Gloucestershire ingenuity, repeated in a foreign land.

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      Is it necessary to bend the knee before his Lordship?

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      What is your pleasure, Sir?

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      "There are so many of your countrymen there." – "There are still more of them in England."

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      "Why do they run away from me? I do not do the same thing twice over."

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      "The English do whatever they have a mind to: a journey of three hundred leag

1

Is it necessary to bend the knee before his Lordship?

2

What is your pleasure, Sir?

3

"There are so many of your countrymen there." – "There are still more of them in England."

4

"Why do they run away from me? I do not do the same thing twice over."

5

"The English do whatever they have a mind to: a journey of three hundred leagues for a visit of a fortnight!"

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As for us, nothing is required of us but that we should work.

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Overwhelmed by duties.

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There are honest people every where, even in Normandy.

9

Ninety-nine sheep and one native of Champagne make a hundred good beasts.

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Ninety-nine sheep and one native of Champagne make a hundred good beasts.