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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Distinguished Provincial at Paris by Honore de Balzac: numbered ring of crystallized tin plate, were laid by their places.
Flicoteaux I. only changed the serviettes of a Sunday; but Flicoteaux
II. changed them twice a week, it is said, under pressure of
competition which threatened his dynasty.
Flicoteaux's restaurant is no banqueting-hall, with its refinements
and luxuries; it is a workshop where suitable tools are provided, and
everybody gets up and goes as soon as he has finished. The coming and
going within are swift. There is no dawdling among the waiters; they
are all busy; every one of them is wanted.
The fare is not very varied. The potato is a permanent institution;
there might not be a single tuber left in Ireland, and prevailing
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