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For this purpose you may send one, two, or three trusty persons over to the city, to get the reports, the newspapers, and the truth, if they can. We are just going to exhibit a grand champetre and feu de joie, so must only say that I am sincerely yours, Brunswick, July 6th, 1778, I have your letter of yesterday's date.
If I could have spent my fifty dollars in verbs, in taking a journey, in giving a fête champêtre! But the right thing! A house, a park, a pair of horses, a curricle, a pony-phaëton. But how many feet of ground would fifty dollars buy? and scarcely the hoof of a horse. There was a diamond ring. Not for me; because "he" had been too poor to offer me one. But I could give it to him.
And when people are happy in this thirsty land water will not be far off; and in the school of Giorgione, the presence of water the well, or marble-rimmed pool, the drawing or pouring of water, as the woman pours it from a pitcher with her jewelled hand in the Fete Champetre, listening, perhaps, to the cool sound as it falls, blent with the music of the pipes is as characteristic, and almost as suggestive, as that of music itself.
The principal event at Trieste in 1881 appears to have been the arrival of the British squadron in July. Burton and his wife were always of a most hospitable nature; they would have spent their last penny in entertaining their friends. The first thing they did on the arrival of the squadron was to invite the captains and officers of every ship to an evening fete champetre and ball at Opcina.
And truly, my dear madam, I dare say the Pompeiians did not take Vesuvius very seriously; it was merely an eligible spot for a fete champetre. And when gaunt fishermen first preached Christ about the highways, depend upon it, that was not taken very seriously, either.
By a bypath this garde champetre came up, his sword tucked under his arm. The sight of the municipal cap suddenly calmed the Negroes' choler.
Yet, like a modern play, they are certain of unbounded applause. Last night we had a Fete Champetre, which, it must be granted, was a most accurate picture of nature, and the manners of rustics!
For this purpose you may send one, two, or three trusty persons over to the city, to get the reports, the newspapers, and the truth, if they can. We are just going to exhibit a grand champetre and feu de joie, so must only say that I am sincerely yours, Brunswick, July 6th, 1778, I have your letter of yesterday's date.
"My heavens alive!" she sighed sweetly, "there’s nothin’ like home. Not anywhere—not nowhere!" The next date upon the little gold and ivory memorandum card which hung beside Aunt Mary’s watch was that set for Burnett’s picnic, but its dawning found both host and guest too much attached to their beds to desire any fêtes champêtre just then.
It was generally believed that there were no more human remains left in the stream, until, one day, a garde champetre, looking attentively down into the water where it was some six feet deep, discovered some objects glimmering at the bottom, that at first he took for stones; but they proved to be corpses of men, that had been mutilated in such a manner as to prevent the gas from accumulating in the cavities of the body and hence had been kept from rising to the surface.
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