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... Potatoes and apples were ~to him “‘filthy roots,” the odour of cabbage turned him sick; but he liked peas, and craved for asparagus, sea kale, peaches, grapes, melons, figs, - custard-apples, and above all mangoes. Coffee was - the only stimulant he could ...

... his neighbour agrees with him. The King sits in cafés and chats with his subjects, and they buy the wine he sells, and the asparagus he grows, and in return he purchases their mutton. My courier, who was an hotel runner, used to shake hands with the Minister ...