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'''A travers ces pays conquis par Hitler'''
'''A travers ces pays conquis par Hitler'''


His surroundings are extremely different from theirs. You feel when you go into the large low-ceilinged shop in Duke-street (it has two separate floor-levels, with a step-down, being on the slope of that brief but aristocratic West End thoroughfare) that if you were to give five minutes, on the average, to examining, appreciatively, all the articles there are in it, it would take you about a fortnight working eight hours a day. It has hosts of glass cases such as jewellers affect; the walls are all glass-cases; and displayed - say rather, disposed - in the cases, and on them, and all about, are what, tobacconists call fancy goods chosen, evidently, with meticulous care. That is a small wonder. For wherever Hitler is now, in Europe, there (and, as the Yankees say, many places else) Mr. Dunhill has been, collecting, choosing, for the customer - say, rather, clients - such little possessions as men like to have by them all their lives.
L'environnnement est extrêmement différent ici. Vous sentez, lorsque vous entrez dans cette grande boutique basse de plafond de Duke Street (il y a deux niveaux d’étage séparés, avec des marches qui épousent la pente de cette courte mais aristocratique voie du West End), que si vous deviez consacrer 5 minutes en moyenne à examiner de façon satisfaisante tous les articles qui sont ici, celà vous prendrait environ une quinzaine en travaillant huit heures par jour. Il y a des présentoirs vitrés comme dans les bijouteries, les murs sont couverts de vitrines; et étalés, disons plutôt disposés dans leurs boîtes, sur elles, et partout autour, il y a ce que les marchands de tabac appellent des articles de luxe, sélectionnés, bien évidemment, avec un soin méticuleux. Ce n’est pas étonnant. Partout où est maintenant Hitler, en Europe, (et comme disent les Yankees, dans de nombreux autres endroits), Monsieur Dunhill est allé auparavant, récoltant et choisissant pour ses clients, disons plutôt ses habitués- toutes ces petites affaires que les hommes apprécient d’avoir sur eux tout au long de leur vie.


I should call the carpet of the shop, a plain carpet, light bronze. The whole effect of the place is light brown. It has delicately-ornate wood-work. How much plate-glass there is in it altogether I hesitate (in these explosive days) to think. The commissionaire at the Jermyn-street door-way is in a dark reddish-brown uniform, gold-braided, with a woven gilt “A.D." on his lapels. No one would dare to just pop into Dunhills’. You are ushered in. Let all be done (the shop seems to say) decorously and in a proper manner: there is no hurry; you have come not to buy so much as to select; and of course you have the money to pay. Whereupon you wish you had - to pay for everything you can see.  
I should call the carpet of the shop, a plain carpet, light bronze. The whole effect of the place is light brown. It has delicately-ornate wood-work. How much plate-glass there is in it altogether I hesitate (in these explosive days) to think. The commissionaire at the Jermyn-street door-way is in a dark reddish-brown uniform, gold-braided, with a woven gilt “A.D." on his lapels. No one would dare to just pop into Dunhills’. You are ushered in. Let all be done (the shop seems to say) decorously and in a proper manner: there is no hurry; you have come not to buy so much as to select; and of course you have the money to pay. Whereupon you wish you had - to pay for everything you can see.  
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