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She raved about the qualities of it the words colour, poignancy, force recurring in the quick phrases. 'No one talks of your success now, Monsieur. It is another word. C'est la gloire elle-meme qui vous parle a l'oreille! As she let fall the most characteristic of all French nouns, a slight tremor passed across the young man's face.

This is a grave error: even in Florence, although "Ici on parle français" is conspicuous in many shop-windows, I found I had to speak Italian or go unserved. I had a mortal dread of murdering the beautiful Italian language; so I wanted to speak it well before I commenced, like the Irishman who never could get his boots on until he had worn them a week.

They can no more be falsified than handwriting can be forged so that modern science cannot detect it or than typewriting can be concealed and attributed to another machine. The voice is like a finger print, a portrait parle unescapable." He glanced up, then back again.

I don't know whether you know that I 'm proud," she went on, turning to Gordon and glancing at Captain Lovelock; "it 's a good thing to know. I suppose Gordon will say that I ought to be too proud to point that out; but what are you to do when no one has any imagination? You have a grain or two, Mr. Longueville; but Captain Lovelock has n't a speck. As for Gordon, je n'en parle pas!

But we had had them in our power long enough to take their finger-prints and get descriptions and measurements of them, particularly by this new 'portrait parle system. We felt we could send out a strange detective and have him pick them out of a crowd you know the system, I presume? Kennedy nodded, and I made a mental note of finding out more about the "portrait parle" later.

Je venais d'entrer en menage, A pied grimpant le coteau, Ou pour voir je m'tais mise. Il avait petit chapeau et redingote grise. Il me dit: Bon jour, ma chere. Il vous a parle, grand mere? Il vous a parle? I am skeptical enough to think that it is not the spontaneity of the grandmother but the art of Beranger which enhances the effect of the story told in the poem.

"But tink of vat I tol' you; when I go to die, send for the bon priest, who know how to do the 'parle Française, and I pray for you when I go to heaven."

Only in the matter of tobacco-smoke did the Dutch people she knew live up to the geographical "Readers." German Jews gravitate to Polish and Russian; and French Jews mostly stay in France. Ici on ne parle pas Français, is the only lingual certainty in the London Ghetto, which is a cosmopolitan quarter. "I always said no girl of mine should marry a Dutchman." Mr.

In Paris we often saw in shop windows the sign "English Spoken Here," just as one sees in the windows at home the sign "Ici on parle francaise." We always invaded these places at once and invariably received the information, framed in faultless French, that the clerk who did the English for the establishment had just gone to dinner and would be back in an hour would Monsieur buy something?

Besides, all old women are not imbeciles, history records cases of a different kind, and even some curates are as intelligent as the apes, whose anatomy and customs, about that time, much occupied Professor Huxley. In Balaam's conversation with his ass, it was not so much the fact that mon ane parle bien which interested the prophet, as the circumstance that mon ane parle.