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"Et, croyez, je suis si enchante! Votre sante c'est un miracle vous voir ici. Une surprise charmante!" "Just so. 'Charmante! I happen to know you as a mountebank, and therefore trust you no more than THIS." She indicated her little finger. "And who is THAT?" she went on, turning towards Mlle. Blanche.
During my residence in America, little circumstances like the foregoing often recalled to my mind a conversation I once held in France with an old gentleman on the subject of their active police, and its omnipresent gens d'armerie; "Croyez moi, Madame, il n'y a que ceux,
"On a banni les demons et les fees, Le raisonner tristement s'accredite: On court, helas! apres la verite: Ah! croyez moi, l'erreur a son merite!"
Do you think, my dear Sir, said she, mistaking my embarrassment, that I could ask a sous too much of a stranger and of a stranger whose politeness, more than his want of gloves, has done me the honour to lay himself at my mercy? M'en croyez capable? Faith! not I, said I; and if you were, you are welcome.
FOOTNOTES: The story was thus told by Diderot, to Sir Samuel Romilly, when a young man: 'Je vous dirai un trait de lui, mais il vous sera un peu scandaleux peut-être, car vous autres Anglais, vous croyez un peu en Dieu; pour nous autres, nous n'y croyons guères. Hume dîna dans une grande compagnie avec le baron D'Holbach. Il était assis
" And the same feeling was shared by the Parisians in general, and embodied by M. Imbert, a courtly poet, whose odes were greatly in vogue in the fashionable circles, in an epigram which was set to music and sung in the theatres. "Pour toi, France, un dauphin doit naître, Une Princesse vient pour en être témoin, Sitôt qu'on voit une grâce paraître, Croyez que l'amour n'est pas loin.
I've a bird's eye view of the outside, and now, have only to find out where-abouts we may be in the inside." I must say that, when I looked at the ditches and high ramparts, I had a different opinion; so had a gendarme who was walking by our side, and who had observed O'Brien's scrutiny, and who quietly said to him in French, "Vous le croyez possible!"
"We shall never reach Paris, we shall be here for ever and ever." "Oh," said Jan, rashly, "I think we ought to be home in a week." Dum put on the superior French air, which is aggravating even in a nice man. "Vous croyez?" he said. "I'll bet on it," said Jan. "A dinner," answered Dum. "Good," said Jan. This lent a new interest to life.
But this is exceptional; as a rule, elaborate compliments take the place of personal confessions; and, while Voltaire is never tired of comparing Frederick to Apollo, Alcibiades, and the youthful Marcus Aurelius, of proclaiming the rebirth of 'les talents de Virgile et les vertus d'Auguste, or of declaring that 'Socrate ne m'est rien, c'est Frédéric que j'aime, the Crown Prince is on his side ready with an equal flow of protestations, which sometimes rise to singular heights. 'Ne croyez pas, he says, 'que je pousse mon scepticisime
Maddie made me walk with her in the crocodile, and said, "Croyez bien, ma cherie, que votre Maddie ne vous oubliera jamais." It's all very well, but she's been a perfect pig to me many times over about the irregular verbs! She gave me her photograph in a gilt frame not half bad; you would think she was quite nice-looking.
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