Gerrit Witse, a student at the Medical School in Lieden treat his table to wine many cigars as they tell stories into the night. From the Camera Obscura, a 19th Century collection of Dutch humorous-realistic essays, stories and sketches in which Hildebrand, the author, takes an ironic look at the behavior of the 'well-to-do', finding them bourgeois and without a good word for them.

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Location: The Netherlands
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