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Cordial glasses are, it is well known, very small

THIRTY-EÎGHTH SUNDAY.

409. L'étoile de la Légion d'Honneur. — Star of the Légion of Honor. Tbe order of the Légion of Honor was instituted by Napoléon while First Consul, to abolish, as he himself said, those distinctions of nobility which preferred hereditary glory to acquired glory, and plaçed the descendants of great men before great men themselves. It was not alone a military distinction, but was granted to men eminent in civil affairs.

410. Plus de promenade, plus de jeux. — No more walks, no more sports.

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