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"Ce Smiley avait une jument que les gars appelaient le bidet du quart d'heure, mais seulement pour plaisanter, vous comprenez, parse que, bien entendu, elle etait plus vite que ca! Et il avait coutume de gagner de l'argent avec cette bete, quoi-qu'elle fut poussive, cornarde, toujours prise d'asthme, de colique ou de consomption, ou de quelque chose d'approchant.
‘Qu’est ce qu’il dit?’ demanded his companion. ‘Il dit que le jument est bien beau.’ ‘Allons, mon ami, il est tard,’ said the beauty, with a scornful toss of her head; ‘allons!’ ‘Encore un moment,’ said Francis Ardry; ‘and when shall I see you again?’ ‘I scarcely know,’ I replied: ‘I never saw a more splendid turn out.’ ‘Qu’est ce qu’il dit?’ said the lady again.
And for rest-times they spent long delightful afternoons sitting among the blazing gorse cushions of the Eperquerie, and on that great rock that elbows Tintageu into the waves, and looks down on the one side on Port du Moulin and the Autelets, and on the other into Pegane Bay and Port á la Jument. This high perch had a peculiar fascination for Margaret.
And he added: Thereto shalt thou eat herbs of the earth, as who saith thou shalt be like a beast or jument. He cursed the earth because the trespass was of the fruit of the earth and not of the water. Then Adam, wailing and sorrowing the misery that was to come of his posterity, named his wife Eve, which is to say, mother of all living folk.
A rock called La Jument was on our lee bow. Luckily we saw the sea breaking over it. “Port the helm!” called out one of the pilots, “or the ship’s lost. She must bear the main-sail, captain,” added he, “or we shall not weather the island, and she will strike in less than half an hour.” The main-sail was cast loose, and after a severe contest, its unwilling tack and sheet were belayed.
'Qu'est ce qu'il dit? demanded his companion. 'Il dit que le jument est bien beau. 'Allons, mon ami, il est tard, said the beauty, with a scornful toss of her head; 'allons! 'Encore un moment, said Francis Ardry; 'and when shall I see you again? 'I scarcely know, I replied: 'I never saw a more splendid turn out. 'Qu'est ce qu'il dit? I said the lady again.
"Ce Smiley avait une jument que les gars appelaient le bidet du quart d'heure, mais seulement pour plaisanter, vous comprenez, parce que, bien entendu, elle etait plus vite que ca! Et il avait coutume de gagner de l'argent avec cette bete, quoi-qu'elle fut poussive, cornarde, toujours prise d'asthme, de coliques ou de consomption, ou de quelque chose d'approchant.
Under the Commune it continued to be notorious, and to-day it is the resort of lawyers, journalists and Bohemians lesser lights who seem to like the location, on the confines of the bad Boulevard Montmartre, and have no objection to the cocottes who come there in the evening. Like La Fontaine's mule, Qui ne parlait incessament Que de sa mère la jument,
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