 | Francis Cornwallis Maude, John Walter Sherer - India - 1894 - 306 pages
...on the piano ; and, lolling on a divan, fanned by exquisite odalisques from Cashmere, had a roasted English child brought in occasionally, on a pike, for him to examine with his pince nez. In England, again, the desire was rather to make out the Nana to have been one of those... | |
 | Francis Cornwallis Maude, John Walter Sherer - India - 1894 - 306 pages
...on the piano ; and, lolling on a divan, fanned by exquisite odalisques from Cashmere, had a roasted English child brought in occasionally, on a pike, for him to examine with his pittce nez. In England, again, the desire was rather to make out the Nana to have been one of those... | |
 | Great Britain - 152 pages
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Nana became a scented sybarite, who read Balzac, played Chopin on the piano ; and, lolling on a divan, fanned by exquisite odalisques from Cashmere, had a roasted English child brought in occasionally, on a pike, for him to examine with his pince nez.... 