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Her long stay in this city suggested the themes of several of her romances, and the "Lettres d'un Voyageur" might almost be pages from her own journal. Her companion was here seized with a terrible illness. She nursed him day and night through all its length, being so greatly fatigued at the time of his recovery that she saw every object double, through want of sleep.
He considers them as objects of compassion, not of insult; he speaks to neither 'd'un ton brusque', but corrects the one coolly, and refuses the other with humanity. There is one occasion in the world in which 'le ton brusque' is becoming a gentleman. In short, 'les bienseances' are another word for MANNERS, and extend to every part of life.
Corps de Dieu! Nombril de Belzebuth! Nom d'un pape! Come et tonnerre." "Upon my soul!" exclaimed Jehan, "that can only be my friend, Captain Phoebus!" This name of Phoebus reached the ears of the archdeacon at the moment when he was explaining to the king's procurator the dragon which is hiding its tail in a bath, from which issue smoke and the head of a king.
As all productions of this sort were, as usual, liberally rewarded by the Emperor, they poured in from all parts of his Empire. Three poets and authors of the theatre of the Vaudevilles, Barrel, Radet, and Desfontaines, each received two hundred napoleons d'or for their common production of a ballad, called "Des Adieux d'un Grenadier au Camp de Boulogne."
Beware, little man monkey, beware! Unfortunately Alphonse, who was getting over his fear of him, went on laughing at 'ce drole d'un monsieur noir'. I was about to warn him to desist, when suddenly the huge Zulu bounded off the veranda on to the open space where Alphonse was standing, his features alive with a sort of malicious enthusiasm, and began swinging the axe round and round over the Frenchman's head.
Upon the whole, lay aside, during your year's residence at Paris, all thoughts of all that dull fellows call solid, and exert your utmost care to acquire what people of fashion call shining. 'Prenez l'eclat et le brillant d'un galant homme'. From hand to arms the transition is natural; is the carriage and motion of your arms so too?
Presently the harmonium player came in. "I may play my loudest to-day, Father," he said, "but no one will hear me." He laughed, settled the pin Joan of Arc's face in metal in his azure blue necktie, and added: "Nom d'un chien, the wind's a cruel wedding guest!" The priest nodded without speaking.
And all that 'pour les beaux yeux d'un chenapan' oh!" he moaned; and a wave of hatred and fury arose in him as he thought of what would be said in the town when every one knew. These women never understand. "It is quite near Everything," suddenly came to his mind, and getting out his notebook, he found her address. Vera Ivanovna Silvestrova, Kukonskaya Street, Abromov's house.
But here, too, great attention must be had to the difference of age, rank, and situation. A 'marechale' of fifty must not be played with like a young coquette of fifteen; respect and serious 'enjouement', if I may couple those two words, must be used with the former, and mere 'badinage, zeste meme d'un peu de polissonerie', is pardonable with the latter.
Henry Leroux of London on behalf of his wife, Mira Leroux, to the amount of a thousand pounds." "A thousand pounds really!" cried Dr. Cumberly, drawing his heavy brows together "as much as that?" "Certainly. It was for a thousand pounds," repeated Max, "and the whole of that amount had been drawn out." "The whole thousand?" "The whole thousand; nom d'un p'tit bonhomme! The whole thousand!
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