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Awwww, the porcelain and the snuffbox exchanges are rather cute! (well, I guess if one doesn't think too hard about where the porcelain came from) Especially how she asks him for more tobacco later on :)

Heh, it was selenak who informed me that "baiser," which I learned in my proper schoolgirl (and apparently old-fashioned) French as meaning "to kiss," is a way of colloquially saying "to fuck." (Hmm, poking around on google gives a couple of links that says that this meaning started in ~16-17th C (so definitely would have had that connotation by this time), and that in current French the verb form basically almost solely means "to fuck," (embrasser being used as "to kiss") although this wasn't always true. But it seems much harder to get the history of "baiseur" in particular.) So yeah, I think a "baiseur" literally might mean "someone to kiss," buuuuut it probably meant "someone to fuck." (But, confusingly, as far as I can tell, "un baiser" really does mean a kiss, and not a fuck.)

Let this child be brought up well, let the family not be prostituted, and let this poor girl get out of court without scandal, while sparing her reputation as much as possible.

Awwww! Fritz, you're actually being nice and enlightened here! (Not as sure about Countess Camas right here, honestly, although I guess it's true that she knew her and Fritz didn't...)