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  • Cabarus slowly stabbing a guy in the face through the gap in his helmet...

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  • Cabarus, a respectable and wealthy farmer from Edenton, from whom the

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  • The fair Cabarus is come out of Prison; wedded to her red-gloomy Dis, whom they say she treats too loftily: fair Cabarus gives the most brilliant soirees.

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  • And now his fair Cabarus, hit by denunciation, lies Arrested, Suspect, in spite of all he could do!

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  • Senhora Fontenai, born Cabarus, the fair Proserpine whom Representative Tallien Pluto-like did gather at Bourdeaux, not without effect on himself!

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  • One remarks, however, that a certain Senhorina Cabarus, or call her rather Senhora and wedded not yet widowed Dame de Fontenai, brown beautiful woman, daughter of Cabarus the Spanish merchant, -- has softened the red bristly countenance; pleading for herself and friends; and prevailing.

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  • It was for "The Cabarus" then, and her Muscadins and Money-changers, that we fought?

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  • So goes it, waltzing, bickering; fair Cabarus, by Orphic witchery, struggling to recivilise mankind.

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  • Fair Cabarus and the Army of Greek sandals smile approval.

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  • One can imagine, in these circumstances, with what humour Sansculottism growled in its throat, "La Cabarus;" beheld Ci-devants return dancing, the Thermidor effulgence of recivilisation, and Balls in flesh-coloured drawers.

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