I had entered, in an idle mood, the shop of one of those curiosity venders who are called _marchands de bric-a-brac_ in that Parisian _argot_ which is so perfectly unintelligible elsewhere in France. You have doubtless glanced occasionally through the windows of some of these shops, which have become so numerous now that it is fashionable to buy antiquated furniture, and that every petty stockbroker thinks he must have his _chambre au moyen age_.…
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