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He was not sorry he had missed all but this last day of carnival, for he was half blinded and wholly deafened, as it was. He was at the "Angleterre;" he had left East Chester about a week ago; he had letters for all of them, but had not dared to bring them through the crowd for fear of having his pocket picked.
No. 60. Le Ministre des Affaires Etrangères aux Ambassadeurs en Allemagne, en Autriche-Hongrie, en France, en Angleterre, et en Italie. St. Pétersbourg, le 17/30 Juillet 1914.
Having arrived at the Quai du Mont Blanc, he walked along it, brooding on this and that, gazing with a bitter kind of envy at the hotels which were even now opening their portals to those more fortunate than he the Bergues, the Paix, the Beau Rivage, the Angleterre, the Russie, the Richemond.
He was a poet of some little note a book of his lyrics, Les Rales d'un Asphyxie, having made a sensation at the time of their appearance. He drank great quantities of absinthe of a morning; smoked incessantly; played roulette whenever he could get a few pieces; contributed to a small journal, and was especially great in his hatred of l'infame Angleterre.
You win your battles, they say, upon beer and cordials: it is why you never can follow up a success. Je tiens cela du Marechal Prince B . Let that pass. One groans at your intolerable tristesse. La vie en Angleterre est comme un marais. It is a scandal to human nature. It blows fogs, foul vapours, joint-stiffnesses, agues, pestilences, over us here, yes, here!
Even in war time this wonderful people can enjoy the open air life! I think of Henriette d' Angleterre looking from the terrace of her Château over the tree tops The poor Château! not a stone of which is standing to-day Did she feel sentimental with her friend the Comte de Guiche as I would like to feel now? If I had someone to be sentimental with. Alas!
Voyage en Angleterre, 1770. "Nay, nefer shague your gory locks at me, Dou canst not say I did it," quotes Pinto, the hero of Thackeray's Notch on the Axe. "He pronounced it, by the way, I DIT it, by which I KNOW that Pinto was a German," says Thackeray. I make little doubt but that Saint- Germain, too, was a German, whether by the mother's side, and of princely blood, or quite the reverse.
He told him how the great Epictetus, when in slavery, had a master whose favourite amusement was pinching his leg, which, as the amusement ended in breaking that limb, was worse than the stocks. He also told him the anecdote of Lenny's own gallant countryman, Admiral Byng, whose execution gave rise to Voltaire's celebrated witticism, "En Angleterre on tue un admiral pour encourager les autres."
Oviedo says that "they were a dainty dish to set before the king," Labat describes potatoes a hundred years ago, as cultivated in Western Africa, and says of them, "Il y en a en Irlande, et en Angleterre," and that he had seen very good ones at Rochelle. Represents nature, or poetic nature at the most, and, therefore, addresses itself as much as poetry does to the feeling and imagination of man.
The moon went behind a cloud, the air grew chilly. I was nerving myself to get up and resume my journey though to what purpose I could not conceive for I would be little better off on a Norman beach than inland when a timid hand was put upon my shoulder and someone said questioningly, "Angleterre?" I sprang up. "England. Oh, yes, England. Can you help me get there?"
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