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He's in New York and I can have him here by Saturday." "It's going to cost oodles of money. Why are you so bent on doing it, Les?" Joan asked curiously. "I won't be kept out of things." Leslie turned almost fiercely upon her questioner. They can play basket ball, I'll admit. I'll show them they are not the only stars. You girls have got to take a game away from them.
Three or four weeks afterwards, when I again passed through Rennes this second time with my father Messieurs les Eclaireurs were still displaying their immaculate uniforms and highly polished boots amidst all the misery exhibited by the remnants of one of Chanzy's corps d'armee.
Legendre's iron cage and simple hanging will, doubtless, be rejected, as too slow and formal. The mode of the day is "les grandes mesures." If I be not seriously alarmed at these propositions, it is not that life is indifferent to me, or that I think the government too humane to adopt them.
There is no hero in "Notre Dame": in "Les Misérables" it is an old man: in "L'Homme qui Rit" it is a monster: in "Quatrevingt-treize" it is the Revolution.
Ces braves gens, les North Cork know us by this time." The major smiled, while he still pressed his services to see them past the picquets, but they were resolved and would not be denied. "With the word for the night, we want nothing more," said Father Luke.
By the end of August Philip was ready for the siege of the Chateau-Gaillard, Richard's great fortress, the key to Rouen and so to the duchy. John seems to have made one attempt soon after to raise the siege, but with no very large forces, and the effort failed; it may even have led to the capture of the fort on the island in the river and the town of Les Andelys by the French.
We have postponed for a few days the reading of Les Chatiments, which was to have been given at the Porte Saint Martin to-day, Tuesday. Louis Blanc came this morning to consult me as to what ought to be the conduct of the Commune. The newspapers unanimously praise the attitude I took yesterday in rejecting the advances made to me. November 2. The Government demands a "yes" or a "no."
The Emperor illustrated his lecture with sketches drawn by himself of the positions of the united French and Spanish fleets during the battle. Almost every year sees some specialty produced at the Royal Opera in Berlin. This year it was Meyerbeer's "Les Huguenots," performed in the presence of the French Ambassador in Berlin, Monsieur Jules Cambon, and two directors of the Paris Opera.
Another important point of 'les bienseances', seldom enough attended to, is, not to run your own present humor and disposition indiscriminately against everybody, but to observe, conform to, and adopt them.
In any case I shall send you the proofs of "Les Preludes" and "Orpheus" before your departure to London, so that my scribbling may amuse you too.
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