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Again, a village conductor will assure you that you will arrive at your destination 'dans une petite demi-heure, and you find on arriving that an hour and a half have elapsed since putting the question. We were terribly tried by this habit now. Our old driver not the master, who had accompanied us to the plateau, but his employe seemed to have no more idea of the real distance of St.

Early in the morning of the second day after the coming of Victoria's letter, the two men started in Nevill's yellow car, the merry-eyed chauffeur charmed at the prospect of a journey worth doing. He was tired, he remarked to Stephen, "de tous ces petits voyages d'une demi-heure, comme les tristes promenades des enfants, sans une seule aventure."

«Après une bonne demi-heure de marche sur le glacier, nous traversons une arrête de glace chargée de terre, de sable et de débris de rocher. J'ai parlé dans le 1er. vol. de ces arrêtes parallèles

Palgrave dit que Woolner fait un choix serieux dans ses amities. Sa femme est jolie, delicate, gracieuse, intelligente; elle me fait l'effet d'un lys. "J'ai recu la visite de Haden hier, il m'a plus enseigne relativement a l'eau-forte en une demi-heure de conversation que dix ans de pratique ne l'auraient fait. Voici mes engagements: "Samedi, diner chez Leslie. Dimanche, tantot chez Lewes.

Soon after midnight a French sapper, narrowly escaping several sentries who thought he was a Boche, came running along the line excitedly waving his arms, and saying: "Mine, mine, faire sauter, demi-heure." No one knew what he meant, though we gathered a mine would probably go up somewhere in half-an-hour, whether ours or theirs we had not the least idea.

'Nous avons encore ? said Birkin, looking at his watch and at the porter. 'Encore une demi-heure. With which, in his blue blouse, he disappeared. He was ugly and insolent. 'Come, said Birkin. 'It is cold. Let us eat. There was a coffee-wagon on the platform.