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'Harriet! exclaimed she, addressing herself to a young lady, who called herself Howard, but whose real name was Brown Jane Brown 'Harriet! exclaimed she, 'Captain Bouncey is going to give a fête champêtre under those lovely cedars. 'Oh, how nice! exclaimed Harriet, clapping her hands in ecstasies theatrical ecstasies at least.

I have no doubt they'll go to see your prowess, if you'll ride, Mr. Foster." Mr. Foster looked down at a most unexceptionable pair of pantaloons, which had arrived from London only the day before. They were the very things, at least he thought so, for a picnic or fete champetre, but he was not prepared to ride in them. Nor was he more encouraged than had been Mr.

She never betrayed it by a single word or look of reproach. Even though she fainted at that cursed fete champetre, yet the moment she came to her senses, she managed so, that none of the spectators could suspect she thought Olivia was her rival. My dear general, you will forgive me as long as I praise Leonora you will understand me.

He spoke with becoming sorrow of the behavior of Italy, and did not mar this charming little fete champetre with any remarks about American shipments of arms. The ex-banker from Davenport also spoke of the Italians, and with a rather disconcerting vigor, considering that they were recent allies.

I saw the Seine distinctly in the sunlight, and, coming along a path, the garde champetre of the district, who with his right hand touched his kepi braided in silver. I replied: "Good morning, Marinel. Where are you going?" "I am going to look at a drowned man whom they fished up near the Morillons. Another who has thrown himself into the soup.

A subject this which, transposed into an atmosphere at once more frankly sensuous and of a higher spirituality, might well have served as the basis for such a picture as Giorgione's Fête Champêtre in the Salon Carré of the Louvre! Magazine of Art, July 1895. Life and Times of Titian, vol. i. p. 111. La Vie et l'Oeuvre du Titien, 1887.

The glimpse of the fete champetre, where several Creole-like girls were conspicuous, brought her more forcibly into my thoughts; and, descending from the hurricane-deck, I entered the cabin with some curiosity, once more to look upon this interesting lady. For some time I dreaded disappointment.

Bohemia was largely represented at the bal champetre, but not without a fair sprinkling of what we call the "respectable classes," especially English and Americans, who brought their wives there to take care of them. Frenchmen, not needing such care, prudently left their wives at home. Among the Frenchmen of station were the Comte de Passy and the Vicomte de Breze.

At the fete champetre they met again; and had their future lives revealed to them by a theatrical-looking gipsy imported from London for the occasion, whose arch prophecies brought lovely blushes into Laura's cheeks, and afforded Philip an excellent opportunity for admiring the effect of dark-brown eyelashes drooping over dark-blue eyes.

Had your letter, my dearest mother, reached me a few hours sooner, I should not have exposed myself as I have done. Yesterday, at our fete champetre, you would have been ashamed of me. I am ashamed of myself. I did the very reverse of what I ought, of what I would have done, if I had been fortified by your counsel. Instead of being calm and dignified, I was agitated beyond all power of control.