The country parson ; and Albert Savarus ; The peasantry . is easy to suppress the mention of the Guard; though, inthat case, the family of the illustrious General who commanded THE PEASANTRY 351 the regiment of horse which was pushed down to the edge ofthe Danube, might ask us to account for those eleven hundredthousand francs, which the Emperor allowed Montcornet to savein Pomerania. We shall soon be requested to give the name of the geographybook in which Ville-aux-Fayes and the Avonne and Soulangesare to be found. Let it be said that all these places, and theCuirassiers of the Guard likewis
The country parson ; and Albert Savarus ; The peasantry . is easy to suppress the mention of the Guard; though, inthat case, the family of the illustrious General who commanded THE PEASANTRY 351 the regiment of horse which was pushed down to the edge ofthe Danube, might ask us to account for those eleven hundredthousand francs, which the Emperor allowed Montcornet to savein Pomerania. We shall soon be requested to give the name of the geographybook in which Ville-aux-Fayes and the Avonne and Soulangesare to be found. Let it be said that all these places, and theCuirassiers of the Guard likewise, are to be found on thoseshores where the Master of Ravenswoods tower stands; thereyou will find Saint Ronans Well and the lands of Tillietudlemand Gandercleugh and Lilliput and the Abbey of Thelema, andHoffmanns privy councillors, and Robinson Crusoes Island, andthe estates of the Shandy*Family; in that world no taxes arcpaid, and those who fain would make the voyage may travelthither post, at the rate of twenty centimes a volume. Authors Note. 03 w.
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