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Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 by Various
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"KELLNER!"
TYROLEAN.
THE KING OF SIAM RETURNING TO HIS PALACE.
ELEPHANT ARMED FOR WAR.
THE GREAT GILDED BOODDH.
FUNERAL PILE FOR THE SECOND KING.
SEVENTY-SECOND CHILD OF THE KING OF SIAM.
ENTRANCE TO THE ROYAL HAREM.




THE NEW HYPERION.

FROM PARIS TO MARLY BY WAY OF THE RHINE.

VI.--SHALL AULD ACQUAINTANCE BE FORGOT?


My first dinner in the avenue of Ettlingen followed upon the
twelve-barreled bath, but was far from being so glacial a,
refreshment. As I descended, quite pink and glowing, I found eight or
ten individuals in the dining-room. They were French and Belgians, and
exchanged a lively conversation in half a dozen provincial accents.
The servants too talked French in levying on the cook for provisions:
for this, as I have since learned, the domestics of my snug little
boarding-house were deemed somewhat pretentious by the serving-people
of the vicinity, who considered the tongue of Paris a sort of court
language, for circulation among aristocrats only, and supposed that
even in France the hired folk all talked German. My reception at the
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