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–I'll pretend to be asleep, otherwise he will never stop explaining his plans for amending his latest bill. –I'll make him believe that I am asleep or he will go on and on about the minutes of the last session, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, September 9, 1868
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Credit line–I'll pretend to be asleep, otherwise he will never stop explaining his plans for amending his latest bill. –I'll make him believe that I am asleep or he will go on and on about the minutes of the last session, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, September 9, 1868. September 9, 1868. Honoré Daumier. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1962. CC0.
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