Allusions To Other Works
- Music is mentioned with Claude Debussy, and Richard Wagner's Das Rheingold and Die Walküre.
- Valentine dismisses Ida's French as learnt from Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet.
- Uncle Johnathan is said to have written poems in the manner of Thomas Moore.
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