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Hence," added the count, with his French lively smile, "hence there is no place like Vienna for a young man, no place like Vienna for /bonnes fortunes/." "Those make the paradise of the idle," replied Randal, "but the purgatory of the busy.
He had left it in the morning dewy, silent, almost deserted; he found it full of gaiety and life and movement, talking, laughing, and smoking going on, pretty bright dresses glancing amongst the trees, children swinging under the great branches, the flickering lights and shadows dancing on their white frocks and curly heads, white-capped bonnes dangling their bébés, papas drinking coffee and liqueurs at the little tables, mammas talking the latest Liége scandal, and discussing the newest Parisian fashions.
We obtained it by the help of bonnes, who found it easier to speak French to us because our mother always did the same in their presence. My mother considered it of the first importance to make us familiar with French at a very early age, because, when she reached Berlin with a scanty knowledge of German, her mastery of French secured numerous pleasant things.
The tables were already laid, with dishes of raw ham and salted almonds and various bonnes bouches, while brilliant candelabra shone amidst numerous bottles of champagne. The company seemed to have forgotten the gloom that playing bridge had brought over them, and were as gay again as one could wish, while divesting themselves of their furs and snow-boots.
In this period the favourite of the women, the homme a bonnes fortunes, who in the tone of satiety boasts of the multitude of his conquests too easily won, was not a character invented by the comic writers, but a portrait accurately taken from real life, as is proved by the numerous memoirs of the last century, even down to those of a Besenval.
His colour rapidly returned, and he swore that of all the bonnes blagues this was the best; but for all that, one thing is certain he has never since attempted to pick pockets in Regent Street.
The Spanish officers being the hosts were, of course, least talkative, though the Comandante vain as any young sub who wore his epaulettes for the first time could not refrain from alluding occasionally to his terrible list of bonnes fortunes among the fair Sevillanas. He had long been stationed at the city of oranges, and "la gracia Andalusiana" was ever his theme of admiration.
Availles, Bellefonds, Bethines, Beruges, Bonnes, Bussieres, Chateau Gamier, Champniers, Curzay, Civeaux, Gouex, Ingrandes, S. Julien Lars, Jazneuil, Leugny- sur-Creuse, Loudun, Lautiers, Lusignan, Marnay, Maire-le-Gautier, S. Martin-Lars, S. Martin-la-Riviere, Maslou Montmorillon, Mazerolles, Mondion, Maulay, Montreuil-Bonnin, Naintre, Princai, Romagne, S. Remy- sur-Creuse, Saulge, Nouvaille, Persac, S. Savin, Sossais, Thure, Usson, Varennes, Le Vigean, Veniers, Velleches, Verrieres, Venneuil-sur-Biard.
Much about the same date, Philip Mouskes, afterward Bishop of Tournay, wrote his rhymed chronicle , which contains a similar account of the Jew, derived from the same Armenian prelate: "Adonques vint un arceveskes De ca mer, plains de bonnes teques Par samblant, et fut d'Armenie," and this man, having visited the shrine of "St.
He could hardly forgive the honest Germans their coarse flax, and whene'er my traitors of countrymen did amiss, a would excuse them, saying, 'Well, well; bonnes toiles sont en Bourgogne: that means, there be good lenten cloths in Burgundy. But indeed he beat all for bywords and cleanliness. "Oh, Eli! Eli! doth not our son come back to us at each word?" "Ay. Buss me, my poor Kate.
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