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Il y a encore dans la même église, et dans des cercueils de bois, plusieurs corps saints qui sont entiers: les voit qui veut. L'un d'eux avoit eu la tête coupée; on lui en a mis une d'un autre saint Au reste les Grecs ne portent point
"There," said he, "play us one of the tunes of Egypt. 'The Rogue's March, eh? and mizzle." Then did Miss Clifford's French maid trip forward smirking with a parasol to mend: Désolée de vous déranger, Monsieur Hope, mais notre demoiselle est au désespoir: oh, ces parasols Anglais!
Of the four corners thus created, one is or was occupied by an estaminet: you can still see the sign, Estaminet au Commerce, over the door. Two others contain cottages, the remains of cottages. At the fourth, facing south and east, stands what is locally known as a "Calvaire," bank of stone, a lofty cross, and a life-size figure of Christ, facing east, towards the German lines.
Ces couches sont en général inclinées de 30 degrés en descendant au sud-est.»
A week or so later, some further details were forthcoming: "I received yours, dear sister, this minute, and am very sorry both for your past illness and affliction; though au bout du compte, I don't know why filial piety should exceed fatherly fondness. So much by way of consolation.
"Au revoir, my brave men," the First Consul would say to them; "baptize for me quickly these new-born," touching with his fingers their sabers of honor. God knows whether they spared themselves!
What had been the message of those eyes, flashed down the dimly lighted length of that corridor at Troyon's, ere she vanished? Adieu? Or au revoir? ... She had termed him, naively enough, and a gentleman. But if she knew suspected even dreamed that he was what he was?... He shook his head again, but now impatiently, with a scowl and a grumble: "What's the matter with me anyway?
I went to breakfast with Mr S , one of the English merchants of the place, a kind and most hospitable man; and under his guidance, the Captain, Mr Bang, and I, proceeded afterwards to call on Petion. Christophe, or King Henry, had some time before retired from the siege of Port au Prince, and we found the town in a very miserable state.
The immediate and regular receipt of newspapers and periodicals keeps him au courant of even the most temporary politics, and gives him a much more correct view of the state and progress of opinion than he could acquire by personal contact with individuals; for every one's social intercourse is more or less limited to particular sets or classes, whose impressions and no others reach him through that channel; and experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure to keep up a large acquaintance with the organs of opinion, remain much more ignorant of the general state either of the public mind, or of the active and instructed part of it, than a recluse who reads the newspapers need be.
"Lawrence Mannering is not a man of ordinary disposition, you know. He had come to the conclusion that it was right for him to go, and opposition would only have made him the more determined. I cannot see that there is any harm likely to come of it." "I am not so sure of that," Borrowdean answered, seriously. "Mannering is au fond a man of sentiment.
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