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...ed its name of “impression-stone.” Modern machinery has swept all this old-world mechanism into oblivion; the wooden press which, with all its imperfe... ...chard had contrived to reduce this license to a dead letter, thanks to the war crisis of the Empire, and con- sequent atrophy of commercial enterprise... ...ar that M. de Chateaubriand remarked it among the ursine tribes of the New World. But philosophers inform us that old age is apt to revert to the habi... ...de- fects, and way of life, that he might have come ready dressed into the world. You could no more imagine him apart from his clothes than you could ... ...ked in the ways of his illustrious pro- genitors, Bargeton I. and Bargeton II., Bargeton V . (who may be dubbed Bargeton the Mute by way of distinctio... ...ty, or was gifted with a bass voice that rendered Se fiato in corpo like a war whoop—Mme. de Bargeton amid these grotesque figures was like a famished... ... each to each, hurry ardent souls on towards extreme measures. A system of espionage of the most minute and intricate kind underlies provincial life; ...