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  • Muslin curtains, fairly white, carefully screened this lumber-room — a _capharnaum_, as the

    The Purse 2007

  • Muslin curtains, fairly white, carefully screened this lumber-room — a _capharnaum_, as the

    The Purse 2007

  • The _cabajoutis_ is to Parisian architecture what the _capharnaum_ is to the apartment, -- a poke-hole, where the most heterogeneous articles are flung pell-mell.

    Ferragus Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • The _cabajoutis_ is to Parisian architecture what the _capharnaum_ is to the apartment, -- a poke-hole, where the most heterogeneous articles are flung pell-mell.

    The Thirteen Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • _capharnaum_, as the French call such a domestic laboratory,

    The Purse Honor�� de Balzac 1824

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