Pictures of the French, a series of literary and graphic delineations of French character (1840)
Janin, Jules Gabriel, 1804-1874, Cormenin, Louis-Marie de Lahaye, vicomte de, 1788-1868 · London : W.S. Orr · leaf 198
c is un-ike any other public. A few workmen out of work, a few loose women, haunters)f taverns and hells, thieves at the commencement or the close of their career, men!scaped from the galleys, the lazy, the good-for-nothing, and the good-for-nothing-ilse, squeeze their way to the foot of the… … orth rude exclamations, stifled cries, coarse jokes, and a brutal hubbub of offendedlecency, angry oaths, and strange slang. The swindler or the assassin comes thereto learn how a witness may be thrown out, how a question may be evaded, how anilibi may be invented, how a fact may be distorted, and…
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