human
I ought to have remembered the pepper which the Princess of Persia puts into the cream-tarts in India, sir (ch. iii.). The charge was that Bedredeen made his _cheese-cakes without_ putting pepper into them. But Thackeray has committed in this allusion other blunders. It was not a
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at all, but Bedredeen Hassan, who for the nonce had become a confectioner. He learned the art of making cheese-cakes from his mother (a widow). Again, it was not a
human
by the phrase _Premier des quatre_, mistaking
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Frith _for first_, and
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Forth
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Portusque require Velinos