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Happening to be in Washington at the revelation of the Cr<e'>dit Mobilier operations, I found him in the House of Representatives, and evidently in the depths of suffering. An effort was making to connect him with the scandal, and while everything I know of him convinces me that he was not dishonest, he had certainly been imprudent.
Nay, never shague your gory locks at me, Dou canst not say I did it. quotes Pinto, the hero of Thackeray's Notch on the Axe. 'He pronounced it, by the way, I dit it, by which I know that Pinto was a German, says Thackeray. I make little doubt but that Saint-Germain, too, was a German, whether by the mother's side, and of princely blood, or quite the reverse.
Scarron, one of Ninon's closest friends, in his Epistle to Sarrazin, thus alludes to this conventual escapade: "Puis j'aurais su * Ce que l'on dit du bel et saint exemple Que la Ninon donne
De façon générale, pourtant, ce monde avait un certain courage personnel. Le cinquième comte de Berkeley avait dit un jour, devant témoins, qu'il n'y a point de honte
"Does he go to school?" "No. They let 'im off. Leastways Mr. Challis did. They say the Reverend Crashaw, down at Stoke, was fair put out about it." I thought that Bates emphasised the "on dit" nature of his information rather markedly. "What do you think of him?" I asked. "Me?" said Bates. "I don't worry my 'ead about him. I've got too much to do."
Le Secrétaire d'Etat dit qu'il a reçu aujourd'hui un télégramme de Pourtalès d'où il constate que plus que les premiers jours Vous êtes disposé
I vant to see him. "I walked into the office. The old man was looking at me over his specs as I went in. He grabbed me by the hand and said so loud you could hear him all over the house: 'Ah, Chim, dot vas tandy orter. How dit you do id mitoud cotting prices, Chim? You vas a motel for efery men we haf in der house. I did nod know we hat a salesman in der office.
"C'est elle qui me l'a dit, et je ne dois pas le savoir!" Silence again. The tearful voice once more: "Noemi!" No answer. "Noemi, listen!" Still no answer. Jeanne began to cry, and Noemi yielded. "For heaven's sake! what Is it now?" "Piero cannot know that my husband is dead." "Well, and what of that?" "Then he cannot know that I am free," "Well? How stupid you are! You make me angry!" Silence.
She put her hands on his shoulders and bent to his ear. The sulphur-colored winged Paul Pry stuck an impertinent head out from behind a palm leaf. "Qu'est-ce qu'elle dit? Qu'est-ce qu'elle dit?" For the second and last time in his adult life the beetle man threw a stone at a bird.
"Dit up, Bertie," she said, laughing, and showing all her white teeth. "Dit up, and have a merry Tismus." "Oh, Winnie darling, I hope you'll have many merry Christmases! Now let's go and see papa and mamma, and then when Nancy has dressed you, I'll show you my presents." "Law!" exclaimed Nancy, raising her hands, "you don't mean to say you haven't taken down your stocking.
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