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The Chevalier de Grammont, on the contrary, was familiar with everybody: he gave in to their customs, eat of everything, and easily habituated himself to their manner of living, which he looked upon as neither vulgar nor barbarous; and as he showed a natural complaisance, instead of the impertinent affectation of the others, all the nation was charmed with a man, who agreeably indemnified them for what they had suffered from the folly of the former.
As he said this, he touched Gyges and whispered: "Be as cheerful as you can! don't you see that it's very hard for Bartja to take leave of this world? What were you saying, Darius?" "That I thought Oropastes' idea the only admissible one, that a Div had taken the likeness of Bartja and visited the Egyptian in order to ruin us." "Folly! I don't believe in such things."
With forty men I will traverse the country as a partisan. But if I fall in with, not forty thousand English, as Planchet said, but purely and simply with four hundred, I shall be beaten. Supposing that among my forty warriors there should be found at least ten stupid ones ten who will allow themselves to be killed one after the other, from mere folly?
Elizabeth let loose her indignation as soon as she was out of the drawing-room. 'Did you ever hear anything so vulgar? said she. 'Indeed it was very ridiculous, said Anne, beginning to laugh at the remembrance. 'How can you be diverted with things that enrage me? said Elizabeth. 'It is better than taking them to heart, as you do, my poor Lizzie, said Anne; 'they are but folly after all.
It stands outside other things a mixture of mad mirth and gravity, of folly and reason, of childishness and grandeur, of the commonplace and the out-of-the-way, of popular verve and polished humanism, of mother-wit and learning, of baseness and nobility, of personalities and broad generalization, of the comic and the serious, of the impossible and the familiar.
Day and night I have reasoned, implored, prayed; I have represented the folly, injustice, and impiety of their violence; I have held out to them the anger of God and the maledictions of man; I have employed art, eloquence, and reproof: but all in vain. Oh, what years of misery has your quarrel cost me!
"I said the Beast of Revelations don't you know the Scriptures?" "I know that a fool is to be answered according to his folly," was the hoarse reply, and the great head wagged to and fro in its smarting rage. "Well, I'm doing my best; and perhaps when the folly is all out, we'll come to the revelations of the Beast."
The burden of the night was bearable, but that of daylight I fled from, and all day I was like one expecting a crisis. Laughter, with so much to arouse it, hardly had any foothold within me to stir my wits. For if I said 'Folly! I did not feel it, and what I felt I did not understand. My heart and head were positively divided.
In one matter he had marred his name, and by a moment's weakness had injured his character among his friends more than he had done by the folly of three years.
But when we consider the predicament of Louis, obliged to recall d'Éon publicly, while all his ruinous secrets remained in the hands of that disgraced and infuriated little man, it seems not quite impossible that he may have committed the folly of writing this letter. For the public recall says nothing about the secret papers of which d'Éon had quantities.
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