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"I beg your pardon, monsieur le ministre," said D'Artagnan, "but my time is short; I have to go to the office of the intendant, to have an explanation with Monsieur Colbert, and to receive my quarter's pension." "But, monsieur," said Fouquet, "there is money here." D'Artagnan looked at the superintendent with astonishment.
Nothing can be more brilliantly original than the introductory chapter of Monsieur le Ministre. Sulpice Vaudrey makes his first appearance behind the scenes of the Opéra, and from the sides of the stage, in the stage boxes, opera-glasses are turned upon him, and he hears whispered: "'It is the new Minister of the Interior. "'Nonsense! Monsieur Vaudrey? "'Yes, Monsieur Vaudrey
"Merit only. You understand, Monsieur Warcolier?" Warcolier rolled his huge eyes in astonishment; then, with the self-satisfied smile of an expressionless beau, after passing his fat hand through his long whiskers, yellow and streaked with gray, that decorated his rosy cheeks, he remarked doctorally, that Monsieur le Ministre was entering on a path that, in all conscience, he could qualify as being only dangerous.
"We have cut down her duties and raised her salary; now the Queen is coming, Paris will be full of English, and they are always crazy after Mlle. Rachel. It is really out of the question, Monsieur le Ministre." The Minister was very sorry, but hoped there would be no real difficulty. The manager was equally sorry, but really he could not think of it.
In reply, I beg to state that I have taken note of the same. I avail, etc., His Excellency, Lou Tseng-tsiang, Minister of Foreign Affairs. Peking, the 25th day of the 5th month of the 4th year of the Republic of China. Monsieur le Ministre,
Docs., IX. 431; Belmont, Histoire du Canada; Frontenac au Ministre, 15 Nov., 1689. Montreal was wild with terror. It had been fortified with palisades since the war began; but, though there were troops in the town under the governor himself, the people were in mortal dread.
"MONSIEUR LE MINISTRE, On the day when a royal ordinance, decreeing the establishment of model national workshops, shall appear in the 'Moniteur, the undersigned, to the number of TEN THOUSAND, will repair to the Palace of the Tuileries, and there, with all the power of their lungs, will shout, 'Long live Louis Philippe!
In reply, I beg to state that I have taken note of the same. I avail, etc., His Excellency, Lou Tseng-tsiang, Minister of Foreign Affairs. Monsieur le Ministre,
"To His Excellency, le Comte Ouvaroff, Ministre de l'Instruction publique de sa Majesté l'Empereur de Russie, &c., &c., &c.
"SIRE: Le soussigné a l'honneur, par l'intermédiaire de M. votre ministre d'état et chef du département des affaires étrangères, de soumettre
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