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Sketching rambles in Holland (1885)

Boughton, George Henry, 1834-1905 · London, Macmillan · leaf 206

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Human Nature. i So fast getting into a corner, and expiring among its fish-like and ancient smells — game to the last. A newfangled burgomaster has been weakening its strongest defence by introducing drain- age and sanitary ideas. Fashion makes small impress, however, on even the most frivolous… … IN SCHEVENINGEN. think of putting on the least bit of it than the elegant mondaine would of going about in great white sabots. Human nature is weak, however, on certain points. Did we not, looking through a shop window, see a pair of bonny fish-girls buying eau-de- Cologne ? What charms did these…

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