The table where the men ate was so long that a server usually drove to one end of the table and stayed the night.

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And somebody once wrote many a superb champion of Longchamps, that is the racetrack, met their end on the table of some well-heeled person from the western fancy districts of Paris.

有人写过那些朗克汉普斯获的冠军赛马,朗克汉普斯是赛道名,它们的一生结束于一个,巴黎富人区的有钱人的餐桌上

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