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Excerpt from The Magician, Vol. 2: Being Part of the Memoirs of a Physician; The Marie Antoinette Romances
This sight pleased Gilbert greatly, and be amused him self with looking through the differently tinted windows at the rich valley which lies stretched beneath the feet of a spectator situated on the hill of Luciennes, and at the noble Seine winding in the midst.
A sight nearly as interesting, however, at least in Mon sieur de J assien'e opinion, was the tempting breakfast spread in the centre of the summer-house, upon a table formed of gnarled and fantastic woodwork, on which the bark had been allowed to remain.
The exquisite cream for which Marly is celebrated, the luscious apricots and plums of Luciennes, the crisp sau sages of N enterre smoking upon a porcelain dish, without any appearance of a servant bringing them, strawberries peeping from a graceful little basket lined with vine-leaves, and beside the fresh and glistening pats of butter rolls of homely peasant bread, with its rich brown crust, so dear to the pampered appetite of the inhabitant of towns, all this drew an exclamation of admiration from Rousseau, who, philosopher as he was, was not the less an unaffected gourmand for his appetite was as keen as his taste was simple.
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