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NYM(G.780.002
10 Jan 1780:212 (1473)
From the Universal Magazine, for May 1779. Dubois and
Fanchon: An interesting adventure; from a View of Society
and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany.
Paris. My friend Fontanelle called on me a few days since,
and as soon as he understood that I had no particular
engagement, he insisted that I should drive somewhere into
the country, dine tete a tete with him, and return in time
for the play. When we had drove a few miles I perceived a
genteel looking young fellow, dressed in an old uniform. He
set under a tree, on the grass, at a little distance from
the road, and amused himself by playing on the violin. . .
[The narrative continues--narrator, Marquis, soldier, and
his lady end up in an inn. The soldier speaks] One who has
contrived to live five years on soldier's pay, replied he,
can have little difficulty for the rest of his life.--I can
play tolerably well on the fiddle, added he, and perhaps
there is not a village in all France of the size, where
there are so many marriages as in that in which we are going
to settle--I shall never want employment. . . [Marquis] It
shall be my business to find out some employment for you, my
fellow soldier, more profitable than playing on the fiddle.
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