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"A man of intrigue a bonnes fortunes of lavish expenditure withal; very tenacious of his dignity, and avoiding any petty scandals by which it might be lowered; just the man who, in some passing affair of gallantry with a lady of doubtful repute, would never have signed his titular designation to a letter, and would have kept himself as much incognito as he could.
Green burst out into one of those peals so peculiarly British. "Ah, le pauvre Professeur!" cried she. "He is too absurd!" "He tells me," said I, gravely, "that he is quite accable with his bonnes fortunes possibly he flatters himself that even you are not perfectly inaccessible to his addresses." "Tell me, Mr. Pelham," said the fair Mrs.
He had at the same time, and for a certain interest, advanced Madame d'Estainville money to establish her famous, or rather infamous, house in the Rue de Bonnes Enfants, near the Palais Royal, a house that soon became the fashionable resort of our friends of Liberty and Equality.
'It is not what a man has, or what he has done, or even his taste in a coat or a wig though, mind you, a French friseur does a deal to help men to bonnes fortunes but it is a sort of a way one has. The silly creatures cannot stand against it. Mr. Thomasson hastened to agree, and to vouch her future ladyship's flame in proof of my lord's prowess.
'Tenez-vous votre coin a table, et dans les bonnes compagnies? y brillez-vous du cote de la politesse, de d'enjouement, du badinage? Etes-vous galant? Filex-vous le parfait amour?
No man was more universally known in every grade of society than he was, and his bonnes fortunes as a gambler and as a man of pleasure formed an important subject of the daily conversation of the men and women who dispensed public favor. He was therefore a conspicuous person, and whatever happened to him became an object of general interest to people as frivolous as he.
I am very glad that you went to Versailles, and dined with Monsieur de St. Contest. That is company to learn 'les bonnes manieres' in; and it seems you had 'les bonnes morceaux' into the bargain.
Les Roches Bonnes are 8 or 9 leagues from the Isle of Rhé, their position is not exactly determined on the charts. Three knots make a marine league of 5556 meters. These are very large fish which every moment appear on the surface of the water, where they tumble about.
"Like a little Empress," the Emperors commented. The Frenchwoman threw up her hands and apostrophised heaven. To this day she believes that all the bonnes of Oxford are mad, but mad, and of a madness. She stared at the door, at the pail and scrubbing-brush that had been shut out with her, at the letter in her hand.
"I ought to say," said Tressady, pausing once more as they moved together towards the door, "that I have not ultimately much hope for Mrs. Allison. If this entanglement is put aside, there will be something else. Trouville itself, in August, I should imagine, is a place of bonnes fortunes for the man who wants them, and Ancoats's mind runs to such things."
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