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This very day three things had smitten Jean Jacques, and, if three, why not four or five, or fifty! With a strange fascination Jean Jacques' eyes were fastened on the glow. He clucked to his horses, and they started jerkily away. M. Fille and the widow Poucette said good-bye to him, but he did not hear, or if he heard, he did not heed.
And though not originating he certainly carried to the pitch of the artistically ludicrous those progressive pictures of goats dissolving into pianists; of Liszt tearing passion and grand pianos into tatters. He has contributed to the gaiety of nations with his celebrated design: Ma fille! Monsieur Cabanel, which shows a harpy-like mother presenting her nude daughter as a model for that painter.
I think there are fish there," she added, innocently, "and I usually come after luncheon." "And when your gowns arrive from Paris " "Then! Then you shall see! Oh! I shall be a very different person; I shall be timid and silent and stupid and awkward, and I shall answer, 'Oui, monsieur; 'Non, monsieur, and you will behold in me the jeune fille of the romances." "Don't!" he protested.
Neither the "Dead Ass," nor the "Starling," nor the fair "Fille de chambre," had now a charm to steal the reader from his petty miseries of head and heart. Casting the book aside, he again arose, paced nervously up and down the cramped cabin, and once more sought comfort in the cushioned seat. Prudence bade him seek home before nightfall, but the inertia of despondency kept him from going.
Here is the way they talked in New Orleans in those days. If you care to understand why Louisiana has grown up so out of joint, note the tone of those who governed her in the middle of the last century: "What, my child," the Grand Marquis said, "you a fille
His mother-in-law had died since he left, and when his wife wept on his shoulder, he patted her on the back, and winked over his shoulder at his admiring friends, as he said: "Chut, ma fille, if you are going to cry in these days because someone dies, you'll have no time to sleep. Only think of it, the old lady died in bed, and that is everything which is most aristocratic in these days."
Thank God, I keep the faith that is behind all faith the speech of a man's soul with God.... But there, if you can, let us hear what man it is who disturbs the home of the philosopher. It is not my Fille, that's sure."
I took these sketches in the second-class schoolroom of Mdlle. Reuter's establishment, where about a hundred specimens of the genus "jeune fille" collected together, offered a fertile variety of subject.
A woman of your temperament ought never to bind herself by marriage to any man, and is certainly not fit to have children. You were intended do not take the words as an insult to lead the life of a fille de joie. The term sounds ugly but I know no other that is equally applicable. Your vehement temperament, your insatiable desire for new excitements in a word, your whole nature tends that way.
You are mine." "Is he a lean, black-bearded man?" "Yes." "He spoke to me the other day as I was coming through the garden, and asked me if you were really painting a 'jeune fille' picture. I said you were painting a picture, and he would probably see it when you had your show in April." Camille laughed. "Good child! We must keep up the mystery." He flung down his brushes.
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