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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