trouant, flying through

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it seems to me y ou are becoming ver y common-place and over-prudejit. Prudhomme, the modem type of a self-satisfied common man, is a création of Henri Monnier's genius in his " Mémoires de Joseph Prudhomme." It is usually applied to conceited persons of a very ordinary intelligence.