I have worked hard, and committed crimes for money, and now, when I should enjoy it, you, with your feminine devilry, have dragged me back to the depths.’
— from Madame Midas by Fergus Hume
In Paris the house of Fourdinois was making a name which, in subsequent exhibitions, we shall see took a leading place amongst the designers and manufacturers of decorative furniture.
— from Illustrated History of Furniture: From the Earliest to the Present Time by Frederick Litchfield
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