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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: L'ECOLE DES MARIS 8ct Jtrat SCENE FIRST Sganahelle, ARISTE Sganarelle. Jj BOTHER, if you please, let us cease these discussions, and each of us live as we each may think best. Although you have much the advantage in years and are old enough now to have learned to be wise, I must honestly tell you it is my intention not to take any more of your proffered advice. The counsel I follow is that of my fancy, and I 'm very content with my manner of life. Ariste. But others condemn it. Sganarelle. Yes, fools like yourself. Ariste. Brother, a thousand thanks; the compliment is kind. Sganarelle. I would like much to know ? for one ought to know all ? what these fine censors find to reprehend. Ariste. Your sullen temper, the severity of which eschews the amenities of social life, gives a fantastic air to all you do, and, even to your clothes, stamps you as barbarous. Sganarelle. Truly, I ought to bow my neck to fashion's yoke It is not for myself that I should clothe me Can't you, my good elder brother, ?for, God be thanked, you are that (not to curtail you) by a score of years, ? can't you, I say, in these respects, teach me the manners of your silly fops, force me to wear those little hats that flatten their weak brains, and those blond periwigs, of which the vast expansion hides the face, those scanty doublets ending at the armpits, and those huge collars reaching to the waist, those sleeves that dip into the gravies, those petticoats called breeches, those dainty shoes tricked out with ribbons that make youlook like spur-heeled pigeons, and those enormous ruffles at the knees, in which, like fetters, you daily put your legs, compelling you to walk in straddles ? Oh, yes 't would please you much, no doubt, to see me rigged in just the silly thi...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217318112 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217318118 |
| Weight | 0.45 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.31 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 132 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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