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in the most perfect rapport.
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"(guests)" Hear! Hear!
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Thank you.
:41:07
May I, in turn,
propose a toast to our host and hostess?
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For without the noble patronage of
the aristocracy, we are orphans indeed.
:41:17
They understand and nurture us.
:41:20
They are our model and inspiration.
:41:24
Thank you.
:41:26
George, youre not drinking.
:41:29
You must pardon Madame Sand.
She is allergic to the aristocracy.
:41:35
Surely that cant be!
:41:37
Madame Sand, my hobby is genealogy,
:41:40
and if I am correct,
you are a baroness by marriage
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and your fathers mother was a countess.
:41:45
Really?
:41:46
Yes, but my mothers father
was a bird-seller.
:41:50
There you are, philosopher.
Scientific proof of God.
:41:54
The lion may lie down with the lamb,
and the baroness with the bird-seller.
:41:58
(laughter)
:42:00
Since you must know birds,
Madame Sand,
:42:02
what do you think of our local partridge?
:42:05
We flushed four of them
in a field this afternoon.
:42:08
Your friend Mallefille here
shot three of them.
:42:12
I only wounded the last one.
It flew away.
:42:15
I dont know how it could fly -
one wing was nearly torn off.
:42:19
When we were wandering back,
we saw it thrashing about in the garden.
:42:23
The dogs had got it!
One of the bitches had bitten off its head.
:42:28
- Feathers were flying everywhere...
- Charles!
:42:31
(violent coughing)
:42:35
Now see what youve done!
:42:39
What the devils the matter with him?
:42:41
He has trouble with his lungs.
Makes a misery of his life.
:42:46
He should be bled.
:42:48
We have an excellent physician. Hes
developed a special variety of leeches.
:42:53
Painless, and they leave very little mark.
:42:55
Better yet,
send in George to Monsieur Chopin.
:42:58
She leaves no mark at all.