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I must now, therefore, claim the "benefit of this act," and beg of the reader to let me pass from this sad portion of my history, and for the full expression of my mingled rage, contempt, disappointment, and sorrow, let me beg of him to receive instead, what a learned pope once gave as his apology for not reading a rather polysyllabic word in a Latin letter "As for this," said he, looking at the phrase in question, "soit qui'l dit," so say I. And now en route.
Mo, pointing waggishly to Doggie, warned the little girl against his depravity. "Mauvy, mauvy!" said he. "Qu'est-ce qu'il dit?" asked the child. "He's the idiot of the regiment, whom I have to look after and feed with pap," said Doggie, "and, being hungry, he is begging you not to detain me." "Mon Dieu!" cried the child.
The general, turning and leaning back on his horse, said to the bold little urchin as the mother snatched him up, "My boy, as long as you live never again go behind a horse's heels." "And remember, it was general Clarendon gave you this advice," added Beauclerc, and turning to Lady Cecilia "'Et souvenez vous que c'est Marechal Turenne qui vous l'a dit."
L'empereur, m'a-t-on dit, avoit donné Ségédin
Mr. Sprole's hair was prematurely white, and the crow's-feet at the corners of his eyes were not the result of legal worries. "Hullo, Dit," he said jovially. "Hullo, Ches," said Ditmar. "Now you're the very chap I wanted to see. Where have you been keeping yourself lately? Come out to the farm to-night, same of the boys'll be there." Mr.
J'étois logé chez un marchand Catalan. Cet homme ayant dit
A little later was ushered into the library of the castle the Comte Detricand de Tournay, who, under the name of Savary dit Detricand, had lived in the Isle of Jersey for many years. There he had been a dissipated idler, a keeper of worthless company, an alien coolly accepting the hospitality of a country he had ruthlessly invaded as a boy.
Occasionally one other person breakfasted with him, even Savary dit Detricand, whom however he met less frequently than many people of the town, though they lived in the same house. Detricand was but a fitful lodger, absent at times for a month or so, and running up bills for food and wine, of which payment was never summarily demanded by Mattingley, for some day or other he always paid.
It seems to hang upon his mind, as if he had been out-braved. His anxiety, as might well be expected from such a temper, was excessive, while Clifton was in danger: but he seems to repent now, that he did not follow the mad example. Parbleu! Madame, je suis Provencal; on dit que j'ai la tete un peu chaude; mais Messieurs les Anglois vont diablement vite aux epreuves!
As quickly as possible he flung himself in front of the excited crowd, threw up his hands, and shouted: "Stand back! stand back! They're my friends!" "Gott in Himmel!" gurgled a German. "Did not they you attackt? Dit ve not see them py our eyes as they didid it?" "I tell you they're my friends," persisted Carker. "They hit-a you! They grab-a you!" shouted an Italian.
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