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T t never passed home without crying out to me, "Ces jolis yeux bleus!" and if the parlor were brightly lighted so that all from the street might see us, and be invisible to us themselves, I always nodded my head to the outer darkness and laughed, no matter who was present, though it sometimes created remark. You see, I knew the joke. Coming from a party escorted by Mr. B r, Miriam by Mr.

"I don't know much about music; but it seems to me, as Rossini said of the music of Wagner: 'Il y a de jolis moments, mais de mauvais quarts d'heures! All the same, it was very pretty." Every one praised the Marquis to the skies, and he was really in the seventh heaven of delight. I am only afraid his head will be turned, and that he will write another chef-d'oeuvre.

Would I talk with you, or with the young dandies most willingly? Are we not of the same blood, Clive; and of all the grandees I see about, can there be a grander gentleman than your dear old father? You need not squeeze my hand so. Those little imps are look that has nothing to do with the question. Viens, Leonore! Tu connois bien, monsieur, n'est-ce pas? qui te fait de si jolis dessins? Leonore.

Non, lui dis-je, des passe-ports Nous n'eumes jamais la folie. Il en faudrait, je crois, de forts Pour ressusciter a la vie De chez Pluton le roi des morts; Mais de l'empire germanique Au sejour galant et cynique De Messieurs vos jolis Francais, Un air rebondissant et frais, Une face rouge et bachique, Sont les passe-ports qu'en nos traits Vous produit ici notre clique.

Ne regrette pas ces colliers Qu'ont a leur cou les riches dames! Tu trouveras dans les halliers, Des tissus verts, aux fines trames! Ta perle?... Mais, c'est le jais noir Qui sur l'envers du fosse pousse! Et le cadre de ton miroir Est une bordure de mousse! Tes bracelets?.. Mais, tes bras nus, Tu paraitras cent fois plus belle! Sur les bras jolis de Venus, Aucun cercle d'or n'etincelle!

We could hear Charles's polite compliments to Jimmie on his driving, and Jimmie's awful French, as he assured Charles that the horses were all right, "très gentils" and "très jolis." "Ne dites jamais 'doucement' aux chevaux américains. Dites 'whoa, et ils arrêteront, et quand vous dites 'Giddap, ils marcheront bien. Savez?"

Vive la Canadienne Et ses jolis yeux doux, then received its consecration, and the light-hearted fellows kept step to c' était un p'tit bonhomme and

"Don't I wish I'd been there!" cried Jo. "Did you go to Paris?" "We spent last winter there." "Can you talk French?" "We were not allowed to speak anything else at Vevay." "Do say some! I can read it, but can't pronounce." "Quel nom a cette jeune demoiselle en les pantoufles jolis?" "How nicely you do it! Let me see ... you said, 'Who is the young lady in the pretty slippers', didn't you?"

T t endorsed it with his approbation and belief in it, and ever afterwards called me "Ces jolis yeux bleus." Gibbes and Lydia were with us too." April 19th, 1862. Another date in Hal's short history! I see myself walking home with Mr. McG just after sundown, meeting Miriam and Dr. Woods at the gate; only that was a Friday instead of a Saturday, as this. From the other side, Mr.

T t, we had to wait a long time before Rose opened the door, which interval I employed in dancing up and down the gallery followed by my cavalier singing, "Mes jolis yeux bleus, Bleus comme les cieux, Mes jolis yeux bleus Ont ravi son âme," etc.; which naïve remark Mr. B r, not speaking French, lost entirely, and Mr.