While this scene was going on at the tavern, Sam and Andy, in a state of high felicitation, pursued their way home.
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
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Metivier, who came in the morning with his felicitations, considered it proper in his quality of doctor de forcer la consigne [To force the guard], as he told Princess Mary, and went in to see the prince.