Pictures of the French: a series of literary and graphic delineations of French character (1840)
Janin, Jules Gabriel, 1804-1874 · London, W. S. Orr and co. · leaf 246
, without crying,as loud as she can, Well, Im going, but it is to please my daughter, and not you—impertinent pack of fellows :—to treat a poor female in that manner ;—and theycall themselves Frenchmen, do they ?—pretty Frenchmen ! In the green-room, Madame de Saint Robert stamps and scolds for a… … for a living being. At last she descries a lamp-lighter, quietly occupied in trimmingthe stage lamps for the evenings performance. That is quite enough for her ; shemakes up to him immediately, and, without leaving him time to breathe, launchesout into her invectives. Hes a beauty—your ape of a…
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