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«D'autres fois le sommet de la montagne est plus aigu que n'est celui d'une voûte, et les couches paralelles entr'elles, mais inclinées
She has just published an additional volume of her Petits Romans, in which there are some beautiful stories, but you must not expect another "Mademoiselle de Clermont:" one such story in an age is as much as one can reasonably expect. I had almost forgotten to tell you that the little girl who showed us in is a girl whom she is educating, "Elle m'appelle maman, mais elle n'est pas ma fille."
He said it was already known as one of 'the divorce states, and the principal city had, in consequence, a very agreeable society. La petite n'est vraiment pas trop mal." "I daresay not! We're all good-looking. But she must be horribly common." Raymond seemed sincerely unable to formulate a judgment. "My dear, you have your own customs..." "Oh, I know we're all alike to you!"
She gave a little laugh, repeating the word "how" in English. "Je ne saurais vous dire 'how; mais, enfin, les Anglais ont des idees a eux, en amitie, en amour, en tout. Mais au moins il n'est pas besoin de les surveiller," she added, getting up and trotting away like the compact little pony she was. "Then I hope," murmured I to myself, "you will graciously let alone my letters for the future."
We passed a standing carriage, in which was a large man in Montenegrin clothes, and a little further on passed a man in a grey suit walking. Dr. Ob gesticulated wildly, and pulled up the motor to gather in a Frenchman somebody in the French legation who was going to Scutari for a week end. He turned suddenly to Jan. "Ce n'est pas une vie, monsieur," were the first words he uttered.
Il n'est pas si grand, et je suis sur que cela lui fera plaisir." M. de la Ferriere bowed, and thus it came to pass that I witnessed the performance after all, being seated on a stool behind some extremely beautiful women whose white shoulders repeatedly distracted my attention from the stage.
Even careless minds gained an idea of the immensity of human disaster from the aspect of this man, on whose face sorrow had cast its black pall, who revealed the havoc caused by that which had never before appeared in him, by thought! N'est pas detruit qui veut. Light-minded people, devoid of conscience, to whom all things are indifferent, can never present such a spectacle of disaster.
Why don't YOU rather, with your practical power, turn sanitary reformer the only true soldier and conquer those real devils and "natural enemies" of Englishmen, carbonic acid and sulphuretted hydrogen? 'Ce n'est pas mon metier, my dear fellow. I am miserably behind the age.
It was Madame Poulard who then would bring us news of the party; at the end of a fortnight, Charm and I felt ourselves to be in possession of the hidden and secret reasons for all the marrying that had been done along the coast, that year. "Tiens, ce n'est pas gai, la noce! I must learn the reason!"
'La famille Anglaise n'est pas encore ici, announced the Postmaster as though it were a funeral to come. He did not even look up. His protests passed ever unobserved. 'But I hear them coming, said a governess, swallowing her soup with a sound of many waters. And, true enough, they came.
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