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Foreseeing, yet deprecating, the coming time of trouble, we still hoped that, with some repairs and makeshifts, the old views might last out our days. Apres nous le deluge. Still, not to lag behind the rest of the world, we read the book in which the new theory is promulgated. We took it up, like our neighbors, and, as was natural, in a somewhat captious frame of mind.

He actually did not dare to send the ITEMS, he says, lest they, if the bill fell into the wrong hands, might reveal too much. Duc de Beaufort whom Athos releases from prison in Dumas's Vingt Ans Apres. Meanwhile, an Italian news-letter, copied into a Leyden paper, of August 1687, declared that Mattioli had just been brought from Pignerol to Sainte-Marguerite.

"On l'a triché donc, après tout," he muttered; "Sang Dieu! les absens ont diablement tort." Sunk as she was at that moment in gloomy meditations, Cecil never forgot that the last object on which her eyes lighted in Dorade was the blasted wreck of the crippled Algerian.

Montesinos. The pleasure which men take in acting maliciously is properly called by Barrow a rascally delight. But this is no new form of malice. "Avant nous," says the sagacious but iron-hearted Montluc "avant nous ces envies ont regne, et regneront encore apres nous, si Dieu ne nous voulait tous refondre."

"Got any real turtle soup?" asked Miss Toombs of the polyglot waiter who now stood beside the table. "Mock turtle," said the man, as he put his finger on this item in the menu card. "Two oxtail soups," Miss Toombs demanded. "Apres?" "Two stewed scallops, and after that some lamb cutlets, new potatoes, and asparagus." "Bon!

I am so ignorant! Ah! it's your friend, M. de Lamartine, I believe. He was thinking of you, my dear!" "Ah! you quote poetry now, dear madam," said Madame Durmaitre, who is not very skilled at retort. "Why not, dear madam? Have you a monopoly of it? 'Pleurante apres son char? I have heard Rachel say that. By the way, it is not by Lamartine, it's by Boileau.

We discussed all manner of things during tea and I learnt a lot about their aspirations for après la guerre. It was singular to think that within a short month, of that happy party Headley the Corporal alone remained sound and whole.

"I well I well, let it go at that." "Secondly, with all your crimes and felonies, you have one decent trait left: you really would like to fall in love. And I suspect you'd even marry." "There are grounds," said Gatewood guardedly, "for your suspicions. Et après?" "Good. Then there's a way! I know " "Oh, don't tell me you 'know a girl, or anything like that!" began Gatewood sullenly.

L'an 1432, cent ans après la publication des deux ouvrages de Brochard, plusieurs grands seigneurs des états de Bourgogne et officiers du duc Philippe-le-Bon font le pélerinage de la Terre-Sainte. Parmi eux est son premier écuyer tranchant nommé la Brocquière. Celui-ci, après plusieurs courses dévotes dans le pays, revient malade

«Les montagnes qui suivent le môle, et qui forment après lui le coté septentrional de la vallée de l'Arve, sont basses et indifférentes, une seule est remarquable par sa forme pyramidale, et par ses couches qui convergent á son sommet, et lui donnent la forme d'un chevron.