Cousin Pons
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£lie Magus lived in the Chaussee des Minimes, a short, broad street leading to the Place Royale. He had bought the house, an old-&shioned mansion, for a song, as the saying is, in 1831. Yet there were sumptuous apartments within it, decorated in the time of Louis xv. ; for it had once been the Hotel Maulaincourt, built by the great President of the Cour des Aides, and its remote position had sared it at the time of the Revolu- tion.
You may be quite sure that the old Jew had sound reasons for b...uying house property, contrary to the Hebrew law and custom. He had ended, as most of us end, with a hobby that bordered on a craze. He was as miserly as his friend the late lamented Gobseck ; but he had been caught by the snare of the eyes, by the beauty of the pictures in which he dealt. As his taste grew more and more fastidious, it became one of the passions which princes alone can indulge when they are wealthy and art-lovers. As the second King of Prussia found nothing that so kindled enthusiasm as the spectacle of a grenadier over six feet high, and gave extravagant sums for a new specimen to add to his living museum of a regiment, so the retired picture-dealer was roused to passion-pitch only by some canvas in perfect preserva- tion, untouched since the master laid down the brush ; and what was more, it must be a picture of the painter's best time.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
£lie Magus lived in the Chaussee des Minimes, a short, broad street leading to the Place Royale. He had bought the house, an old-&shioned mansion, for a song, as the saying is, in 1831. Yet there were sumptuous apartments within it, decorated in the time of Louis xv. ; for it had once been the Hotel Maulaincourt, built by the great President of the Cour des Aides, and its remote position had sared it at the time of the Revolu- tion.
You may be quite sure that the old Jew had sound reasons for b...uying house property, contrary to the Hebrew law and custom. He had ended, as most of us end, with a hobby that bordered on a craze. He was as miserly as his friend the late lamented Gobseck ; but he had been caught by the snare of the eyes, by the beauty of the pictures in which he dealt. As his taste grew more and more fastidious, it became one of the passions which princes alone can indulge when they are wealthy and art-lovers. As the second King of Prussia found nothing that so kindled enthusiasm as the spectacle of a grenadier over six feet high, and gave extravagant sums for a new specimen to add to his living museum of a regiment, so the retired picture-dealer was roused to passion-pitch only by some canvas in perfect preserva- tion, untouched since the master laid down the brush ; and what was more, it must be a picture of the painter's best time.
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