human
I talk French clumsily, yet get on somehow.... My French having been chiefly mathematical, I do not know the names of many common things....
gpt
I am already a Frenchman. If you doubt it, learn that I take wine or raisins for breakfast, and never speak to a peasant without raising my hat.... This _vin ordinaire_ is not 'bad,' in the sense of intoxicating, but in another way. However, if it supplies the place of tea, it is vain to rail at it.
human
All provisions appear within reach of the poorest. I have been in some very low eating-houses here, and perceive apparently poor people breakfast on meat. Nothing seems dear but milk and butter; we get none but goats' milk here.... The finest purple grapes are here 1d. or 3/4d. a pound, and as much bread as I can eat for 1-1/2d.... I had a provoking accident at Béziers. On our leaving the barge, the carman drove off without securing our boxes--he was in a violent passion against some girl porters (a domestic institution of Béziers).... I roared out, 'Arrętez! Arričre! Vous n'avez pas attaché la corde!' But in vain; and in an instant down came from the very top the little medicine chest given me by M----. It fell on its corner, which saved the glass bottles; but every dovetailing is broken, the hinges wrenched off, the panels split.