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Rhoda watched him silently. "Do you know calcul, Mr. Vyvian?" Peter enquired, collecting scattered portions of the pack from under the arm-chair. Mr. Vyvian stared at Peter's back, which was the part of him most visible at the moment. "I really can't say I have the pleasure; no." "Would you like to learn it?" said Peter politely. "Are you fond of patience?" "I can't say I am," said Mr. Vyvian.

"You have a turn, then, Miss Johnson," said Peter, arranging the cards. "Perhaps it'll come out for you, though it won't for me to-night." "Since you are all so profitably occupied," said Vyvian, "I think I will say good night." Peter said, "Oh, must you?... Good night, then. We play calcul most nights, so you can learn it some other time if you'd like to."

"Oh! Then you would like calcul. People who are really fond of other patiences don't; they despise it because it comes out. I don't like any other sort of patience; I'm not clever enough; so I like this. Let me teach you, may I?" Vyvian got up. "Thanks; you're quite too kind. On the whole, I think I can conduct my life without any form of patience, even one which comes out."

Finally, on the 12th of August, 1812, Napoleon, who had just received the Traité du Calcul des Probabilités, wrote from Witepsk the letter which we transcribe textually: "There was a time when I would have read with interest your Traité du Calcul des Probabilités.

Et l'on voit s'envoler le calcul de Newton Monte sur l'ode de Pindare. But if this vision foreshadows the conquest of the air, its significance is symbolic rather than literal, and, like Pindar checking the steeds of his song, Hugo returns to earth: Pas si loin! pas si haut! redescendons. Restons L'homme, restons Adam; mais non l'homme a tatons, Mais non l'Adam tombe!

He did not see the tears that flowed for that mute look of his the moment the door was closed; tears she innocently restrained for fear the sight of them should make him as unhappy as his imploring look made her. Mauvais calcul! She should have cried right out. When we men are unhappy, we like our sweethearts to be unhappier that consoles us.

"Ah, vraiment; that is indeed delightful; cela est fort touchant; that show so much sensibilite, to appreciate le merite, though suffering from poverty. A marriage like that must be beau comme un reve d'Amour!" "You are quite romantic on the subject; but don't people make such matches in France?" "Ah, non, Madame; le froid calcul dominates there at such times.

In return they were to be taught not only how to fill all positions in a hotel, but the scientific principles of domestic economy, properties of food combined with the proportions necessary to health, bookkeeping, English, correspondence, geography, arithmetic "calcul rapide" gymnastics, deportment, hygiene.

"Now I know," thought Peter, seeing Vyvian look, "what villains in books are really like. Vyvian is just like one; specially about the eyes." He was sitting near Rhoda, playing that sort of patience called calcul, distinguished from other patiences by the fact that it comes out; that was why Peter liked it.