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As you walk along the Rue de la Paix [Footnote: The X being one of the / few silent things in France.] and pay and pay, and keep on paying, your / eye is constantly engaged by two inscriptions that occur and recur with / the utmost frequency. One of these appears in nearly every shopwindow / and over nearly every shopdoor. It says:
English Spoken Here.