Clement's, or Eglantine can introduce you at Vincent's,{39} where
better known as the poor curate of H----, crossed the channel.
37 Cawker--an Eton phrase for a stranger or novice.
38 Dictionnaire Universel--a standing toast in the common
room at-----College.
The origin of the toast is as follows: When Buonaparte was
at Elba, Dr. E-, one of the wealthy senior Fellows of ----
College.
Soon after his arrival at Paris, as he was walking through the streets
of that city, he was accosted by an elegantly dressed Cyprian, to whom
he made a profound bow, and told her (in English), that he was not
sufficiently acquainted with the French language to comprehend what she
had said to him, expressing his regret that he had not his French
and English dictionary with him. Scarcely had he pronounced the word
dictionary, when the lady, by a most astonishing display, which in
England would have disgraced the lowest of the frail sisterhood,
exclaimed, "Behold the Dictionnaire Universel, which has been opened
by the learned of all nations."{39} Dr. E--, on his return from
France, related this anecdote in the common room at ---------, and the
Dictionnaire universel has ever since been a standing toast there.
39 A well known respectable bookseller near Brazennose, who
has published a whimsical trifle under the title of "Oxford
in Epitome" very serviceable to freshmen.
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