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At last Frau Lenore declared she was tired out ... Then Gemma at once advised her to have a little nap, where she was, in her chair, 'and I and the Russian gentleman "avec le monsieur russe" will be as quiet, as quiet ... as little mice ... "comme des petites souris." Frau Lenore smiled at her in reply, closed her eyes, and after a few sighs began to doze.
A few weeks later, the police reported that he was in Paris, lodging with a fencing-master, and making no concealment of his desire to 'insulter incessamment et avec éclat M. le chevalier de Rohan. This decided the authorities, and accordingly on the night of the 17th of April, as we learn from the Police Gazette, 'le sieur Arrouët de Voltaire, fameux poète, was arrested, and conducted 'par ordre du Roi' to the Bastille.
Que dire si l'on voyait dans un autre genre de mechaniques, entreprendre le radoub ou la construction d'un vaisseau de ligne avec la seule theorie, avec les seules resources des Sauvages dans la construction de leurs Pirogues!"
And so, as I unlocked the door, I was fortified by the knowledge that I would be assisted by the combined mind-force of a score of highly developed intellects. I was little surprised, a second later, to see that the intruder was Rhamda Avec. What reason to expect anyone else? "How did you get down there?" I demanded. "Don't you realise that you are liable to arrest for trespass?"
Again the discussion proceeded, and we only caught a few of Jack's arguments about "customs of the country," "for the fun of it," etc. "Fun?" said Madame. "For a joke," said Jack. "Ah, c'est vrai, for the choke," she said. "And avec moi," Jack continued. "There's French for you, Madame! Come along!" Madame laughed. "She'll go," said Eleanor. "Eh bien!" Madame cried gaily. "For the choke.
I was sorry enough for him to feel that if he had suddenly taken me by the throat and strangled me slowly, avec délices, I could forgive him while I choked. How correct he was! But bitterness against me peeped out of every second phrase. At last I raised my hand and said to him, ‘Enough.’ I believe he was shocked by my plebeian abruptness but he was too polite to show it.
Voltaire pensively surveying Life, brushes the sounding strings; and hums to himself, the carbuncle eyes carrying in them almost something of wet: "MON Henri Quatre ET MA Zaire, ET MON AMERICAIN Alzire, NE M'ONT VALU JAMAIS UN SEUL REGARD DU ROI; J'AVAIS MILLE ENNEMIS AVEC TRES PEU DE GLOIRE: LES HONNEURS ET LES BIENS PLEUVENT ENFIN SUR MOI POUR UN FARCE DE LA FOIRE."
Assure them of your desire of returning to them; and do it in a manner that they may think you in earnest, that is 'avec onction et une espece d'attendrissement'. All people say, pretty near the same things upon those occasions; it is the manner only that makes the difference; and that difference is great.
All his life he has remained faithful to his admiration of Liszt since 1858, when he dedicated a Veni Creator to "the Abbé Liszt," until 1886, when, a few months after Liszt's death, he dedicated his masterpiece, the Symphonic avec orgue, "To the memory of Franz Liszt." "People have not hesitated to scoff at what they call my weakness for Liszt's works.
The title of Henepin's book is "Nouveau Voyage d'un païs plus grand que l'Europe, avec les réflections des enterprises du Sieur de la Salle, sur les Mines de Ste.
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