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On one of its pages the line to be copied ran as follows: L'hommage est du aux Roys, ils font ce qu'il leur plaist. Under this the budding monarch had written the same words six times, with childish care to keep the strokes straight and the spaces regular.
This advice obtained Napoleon's entire approbation, and was followed. De Segur was permitted to retire, but when Madame Remusat made a curtsey also to leave the room, she was stopped with his terrible 'aux arrets' and left under the care and responsibility of his aide-de-camp, Lebrun, who saw her safe into her room, at the door of which he placed two grenadiers.
With it in his possession an artist may dare much for a long time. Without it he exists as long as those qualities which are perfectly natural to him exist. Yvette Guilbert once told me that crossing the Atlantic with Duse on one occasion she had asked the Italian actress if she were going to include La Dame aux Camélias in her American repertory.
Germain-les-Corbeil on the estate of M. Darblay; at Bois-Boudran with the comte de Greffuhle; or at the château of the baron de Rothschild at Ferrières; and the numerous guests of these gentlemen may, if they are inclined, take a day to see the Omnium or the Prix Royal Oak run between two battues aux faisans.
Anthony Hospital, where he then was, toward the end of April, for in any case traveling would be slow. It was his plan to travel northward, by dog team, to the Straits of Belle Isle, thence westward along the shores, and finally southward, down the western coast of Newfoundland, to Port Aux Basque, from which point a steamer would carry him over to North Sydney, in Nova Scotia.
Well, and now they must keep me from casting in my lot with the recluses who labour and pray at Port Royal aux Champs, unless I can satisfy myself on scruples that perhaps my Huguenot breeding, perhaps my conversations with M. votre frere, have awakened in me.
He politely allowed them to do whatever they liked, while he sat in the shade, under the bridge, with his feet dangling over the river, by the side of the young man with the yellow hair, who was sleeping soundly close to him. One of the boating-men made a martyr of himself, and took the mother. "Let us go to the little wood on the Ile aux Anglais!" he called out, as he rowed off.
For an example of magical transition of tone I turn to Intermède. "Chère apparence, viens aux couchants illuminés. Veux-tu mieux des matins albes et calmes? Les soirs et les matins ont des calmes rosâtres Les eaux ont des manteaux de cristal irisé Et des rhythmes de calmes palmes Et l'air évoque de calmes musiques de pâtres.
Our two friends had much difficulty in finding seats, and had to be content with a place behind a pillar whence they could see only half of the platform, then occupied by a superb person in black coat and yellow gloves, curled and waxed and oiled, who was singing in a vibrating voice Mes beaux lions aux crins dores, Du sang des troupeaux alteres, Halte la! Je fais sentinello!
In no whit disconcerted, he replied that he had devoted his entire zeal to the poor in spirit, and that Madame Cormeil was not of their number. The Court Goes to Flanders. Nancy. Ravon. Sainte Marie aux Mines. Dancing and Death. A German Sovereign's Respectful Visit. The Young Strasburg Priests. The Good Bailiff of Chatenoi. The Bridge at Brisach. The Capucin Monk Presented to the Queen.
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