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Fit patron saint for our own plutocracy is this swinish king, once called Bien aime, the Well-beloved; but after some thirty years of Bradley-Martinism, named Ame de boue A soul of mud!

At that moment, Lady Anne wore the suppressed sigh, but I did not know it I mistook it for boue de Paris conceive my ignorance! No two things in nature, not a horse-chestnut and a chestnut-horse, could be more different. Conceive my confusion! and Colonels Topham and Beauclerk standing by. But I recovered myself in public opinion, by admiring the slipper on her ladyship's little foot.

The Swiss peasants have never yet got so far as to say that the snow in their pits disappears in winter and returns in summer. Boué found the temperature of the bottom of the pit to be 28°.4 F., while that of the air outside was 76° F. The same writer mentions a source in a mill-stone quarry in Bosnia which is frozen till the end of June. Alpen-Vereins, ii. 441.

Boué, however, gives some references to the 'American Journal of Science' which it is possible to make out by a careful search in the neighbourhood of the volume and page he mentions. In vol. iv. The ice is found in a narrow defile, which is hemmed in by perpendicular sides of trap-rock, and displays a perfect chaos of fallen blocks of stone.

That such extensive areas do exist cannot be doubted: the granitic region of Parime is described by Humboldt as being at least nineteen times as large as Switzerland. South of the Amazon, Boue colours an area composed of rocks of this nature as equal to that of Spain, France, Italy, part of Germany, and the British Islands, all conjoined.

He was reduced to the condition of an insect creeping on a "tas de boue," which Voltaire so vividly illustrated in Micromegas.

Oh, bon Gyu!" and he stood stiff and stark, as the great ship narrowed as she turned towards them suddenly, and came threading her way through the bristling rocks, in a way that passed belief and set the hair in the nape of the boy's neck crawling with apprehension. "Platte Boue!" he gasped, as she came safely past that danger. "Grand Amfroque!" and he began to dance.

"It requireth," said Bacon, "great cunning for a man in discourse to seem to know that which he knoweth not." Warned by boue de Paris and the suppressed sigh, this time I found safety in silence.

In former days, putting aside the naughty farces not supposed to present a picture of actual life, most French dramas were quite sound in conventional morality. Augier presented some wicked people, such as Olympe, concerning whom he invented the phrase la nostalgie de la boue; but he was unequivocably moral in his aims, and preached the sanctity of marriage and maternity.

I told a woman that last Easter, and she laughed she was as clever as they make 'em and said that I suffered from what the French call la nostalgie de la boue; that means, you know, the homesickness for the gutter. Rather personal, but dev'lish sharp, wasn't it?" "I think she was a beast." "Not she, she's a sort of cousin; she came from the same old place herself, that's why she understood.