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Original Text:
Inventaire chez un veuf.
Mon Dieu! Messieurs, je vous demande mille pardons! depuis la mort de ma pauvre femme j'ai tant de chagrin, tant de chagrin! que mes amis font pour me distraire.…. hier, ils m’ont fait souper, ils m’ont grisé, ils m’ont masqué…. allons ! faisons vite car cela me saigne le cœur…… et ils m’attendent chez Véry…. Pauvre femme !!!!

Translation:
Inventory at a widower's.
My God, gentlemen, I must really apologize! Since the death of my poor wife I was so much in pain, so much in pain! My friends did everything possible to distract me... Yesterday they invited me for dinner and got me drunk, they even made me put on this costume... Now please hurry up, since this breaks my heart... and they are expecting for me at Véry's for dinner... Ah! my poor wife!