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Such was the power of privilege with which the great Louis had saddled his kingdom. They proceeded to Ancenis, Angers and Breux. From the latter city the road to Versailles was paved with flat blocks of stone. There were swarms of beggars in every village and city crying out, with hands extended, as the coach passed them: "La charité, au nom de Dieu!"
Thence to Rochefort, la Rochelle, Nantes, L'Orient; then back by Rennes to Nantes, and up the Loire by Angers, Tours, Amboise, Blois, to Orleans, thence direct to Paris, where I arrived on the 10th of June.
After the death of my husband, there remained to me a fortune of three hundred thousand francs, placed by my brother with M. Jacques Ferrand, notary. I received at Angers, where I had retired with my daughter, the interest of this sum in remittances from my brother.
"No, Quita. It'll never be that between us. I apologise. But you know I care immensely for your husband, and it angers me to see you apparently indifferent . . ." "Indifferent? How dare you . . . ?" she breathed low and passionately, her breath coming in small gasps. "I understand. But I'm not sorry I roused you. Here comes Honor. I know she wants to get home early. Good-night to you.
Angers is the seat of a bishopric, dating from the 3rd century, a prefecture, a court of appeal and a court of assizes. It has a tribunal of first instance, a tribunal of commerce, a board of trade-arbitrators, a chamber of commerce, a branch of the Bank of France and several learned societies.
"Frantz! my Frantz!" cried the old strolling player in a melodramatic voice, clutching the air convulsively with his hands. After a long and energetic embrace he presented his guests to one another. "Monsieur Robricart, of the theatre at Metz. "Monsieur Chaudezon, of the theatre at Angers. "Frantz Risler, engineer." In Delobelle's mouth that word "engineer" assumed vast proportions!
In 1420 the elector Frederick I. of Brandenburg gained here a signal victory over the Pomeranians. ANGERONA, or ANGERONIA, an old Roman goddess, whose name and functions are variously explained. She was worshipped as Ancharia at Faesulae, where an altar belonging to her has been recently discovered. ANGERS, a city of western France, capital of the department of Maine-et-Loire, 191 m.
"It is quite true, and I see it well when I ponder all the hidden things of our conscience, that I have often provoked you to angers. But I do not find a single reason for repenting of it; but I know this, that I must grieve that I did not do it oftener and harder.
It seemed to Robert suddenly as though there was a Divine breath passing through the wintry lane and through the shaking voice of the old man. Beside the spirit looking out of those wrinkled eyes, his own hot youth, its justest resentments, its most righteous angers, seemed crude, harsh, inexcusable. 'Thank you, Meyrick, thank you, and God bless you!
He is quick at fancying affronts, and greatly exaggerates the slightest and most trifling acts of supposed inattention. The least irregularity on the part of the domestics excites, angers, and vexes him. He is suspicious of and quarrels with his nearest relations, and mistrusts his best, kindest, and most faithful friends.
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