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rinking and smoking around four or five candles in the public room of Thenardier's hostelry. This room resembled all drinking-shop rooms,--tables, pewter jugs, bottles,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], drinkers, smokers; but little light and a great deal of noise. The date of the year 1823 was indicated,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], nevertheless, by two objects which were then fashionable in the bourgeois class: to wit, a kaleidoscope and a lamp of ribbed tin. The female Thenardier was attending to the supper, which was roasting in front of a clear fire; her husband was drinking with his customers and talking politics.Besides political conversations which had for their principal subjects the Spanish war and M. le Duc d'Angouleme, strictly local parentheses, like the following, were audible amid the uproar:--"About Nanterre and Suresnes the vines have flourished greatly. When ten pieces were reckoned on there have been twelve. They have yielded a great deal of juice under the press." "But the grapes cannot be ripe?" "In those parts the grapes should not be ripe; the wine turns oily as soon as spring comes." "Then it is very thin wine?" "There are wines poorer even than these. The grapes must be gathered while green." Etc.Or a miller would call out:--"Are we responsible for what is in the sacks? We find in them a quantity of small seed which we cannot sift out,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and which we are obliged to send through the mill-stones; there are tares, fennel, vetches,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], hempseed, fox-tail, and a host of other weeds, not to mention pebbles, which abound in c
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