The innocents abroad; . me to, and old woman seated us at a table and waited for doctor said: Avez vous du vin ? The dame looked perplexed. The doctor said again, withelaborate distinctness of articulation: Avez-vous du—vin ! The dame looked more perplexed than before. I said: Doctor, there is a flaw in your pronunciation me try her. Madame, avez-vous du vin ? It isnt any use,doctor—take the witness. Madame, avez-vous du vin—on fromage—pain—pickledpigs feet—beurre—des cefs—du beuf—horse-radish, sour-crout,hog and hominy—any thing, any thing in the world that
The innocents abroad; . me to, and old woman seated us at a table and waited for doctor said: Avez vous du vin ? The dame looked perplexed. The doctor said again, withelaborate distinctness of articulation: Avez-vous du—vin ! The dame looked more perplexed than before. I said: Doctor, there is a flaw in your pronunciation me try her. Madame, avez-vous du vin ? It isnt any use,doctor—take the witness. Madame, avez-vous du vin—on fromage—pain—pickledpigs feet—beurre—des cefs—du beuf—horse-radish, sour-crout,hog and hominy—any thing, any thing in the world that canstay a Christian stomach! She said: Bless you, why didnt you speak English before ?—I dontknow any thing about your plagued French! The humiliating taunts of the disaffected member spoiled FIRST SUPPER IN FRANCE. 95 the supper, and we dispatched it in angry silence and got awayas soon as we could. Here we were in beautiful France—in avast stone house of quaint architecture—surrounded by all. FIRST SUPPER IN FRANCE. manner of curiously worded French signs—stared at bystrangely-habited, bearded French people—every thing grad-ually and surely forcing upon us the coveted consciousness thatat last, and beyond all question we were in beautiful France andabsorbing its nature to the forgetfulness of every thing else,and coming to feel the happy romance of the thing in all itsenchanting delightfalness—and to think of this skinny veteranintruding with her vile English, at such a moment, to blow thefair vision to the winds ! It was exasperating. We set out to find the centre of the city, inquiring the di-rection every now and then. We never did succeed in makingany body understand just exactly what we wanted, and neitherdid we ever succeed in comprehending just exactly what they 96 LOST.—FOUND.
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