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Anyway it was accomplished, and that in several fifths of a second. Now let the curtain fall, and the reader be satisfied with the significant word "Asbestos," which is part of all first-rate performances. The Surveillant, I fear, distrusted his balayeur. For this deplorable reason they inevitably carried notes to and fro between les hommes and les femmes.
They are helpless, but I can take care of myself; and, moreover, I am not contented here. I want to see something of the world in which bon gré mal gré I find myself. Let me go. Rousseau was a sage. 'Le monde est le livre des femmes." He shook his head, and said, sorrowfully, "No, your instincts are unreliable; and if you roam away from Jane and from me, you will sip more poison than honey.
L'Ecole des Femmes, the earliest of them, seems to me also the most excellent; it is the one in which there is the greatest display of vivacious humour, rapidity, and comic vigour.
And, above all, if the idea be put a little more crudely and definitely than it occurred in his thoughts, he awoke to the realization that his wife was an asset he had hitherto utterly neglected. One never could tell what a woman would do in these days. Les sacrees femmes. We are indebted to Honora for this view of her husband's mental processes.
La commission, as I have said, visited La Ferte every three months. I consider this one of the luckiest things in my life. La commission arrived one morning, and began work immediately. A list was made of les hommes who were to pass la commission, another of les femmes. These lists were given to the planton with the Wooden Hand.
In that volume, the chapter "Des Femmes" is perhaps the least agreeable to a sensible reader of to-day. It is crowded with types of pretentious and abnormal womanhood, which it caricatures very effectively.
Thus, the Ecole des femmes does nothing more than reproduce and repeat a single incident in three tempi: first tempo, Horace tells Arnolphe of the plan he has devised to deceive Agnes's guardian, who turns out to be Arnolphe himself; second tempo, Arnolphe thinks he has checkmated the move; third tempo, Agnes contrives that Horace gets all the benefit of Arnolphe's precautionary measures.
You must pack a few belongings in a green tin box and betake yourself to the Jolies Femmes. Do not make any inquiries about Gros Jean. Simply watch him." "But what about the Turks?" said Talbot. "Perhaps two of these scoundrels may be the identical pair who accompanied Dubois to Albert Gate. It is possible that they may recognize me at once." "No," said Brett decisively. "This is a different gang.
Melanie Lipinska, in her "Histoire des Femmes Médecins," a thesis presented for the doctorate in medicine at the University of Paris in 1900, subsequently awarded a special prize by the French Academy, reviews Hildegarde's work critically from the medical standpoint.
In his satire on learned ladies Les Femmes Savantes the ridicule is incessant, remorseless; the absurd, pedantic, self-complacent women are turned inside out before our eyes amid a cataract of laughter; and, if Molière had been merely the well-balanced moralist some critics suppose, that, no doubt, would have been enough. But for the true Molière it was not enough.
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