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"Yes, those are the Privy Gardens," said my uncle, "and there is the window out of which Charles took his last step on to the scaffold. You wouldn't think the mares had come fifty miles, would you? See how les petites cheries step out for the credit of their master. Look at the barouche, with the sharp-featured man peeping out of the window. That's Pitt, going down to the House.
Oh, would you tell us the colour of your eyes? Gladys thinks deep, dark grey, but I think velvety brown; we talk and talk about it and can't decide. We mustn't take up any more of your precious time. Your two little adorers, Gladys and Ethel Bocock." "Bocock," Madame von Marwitz commented. "No one can adore me like they do. Let us hope not. Petites sottes."
The office of M. Love for office it was, and of a nature not unfrequently designated in the "petites affiches" of Paris had been established about six months; and whether it was the popularity of the profession, or the shape of the shop, or the manners of M. Love himself, I cannot pretend to say, but certain it is that the Temple of Hymen as M. Love classically termed it had become exceedingly in vogue in the Faubourg St. . It was rumoured that no less than nine marriages in the immediate neighbourhood had been manufactured at this fortunate office, and that they had all turned out happily except one, in which the bride being sixty, and the bridegroom twenty-four, there had been rumours of domestic dissension; but as the lady had been delivered, I mean of her husband, who had drowned himself in the Seine, about a month after the ceremony, things had turned out in the long run better than might have been expected, and the widow was so little discouraged; that she had been seen to enter the office already a circumstance that was greatly to the credit of Mr.
Baudin's one of a series of French expeditions. The building up of the map of Australia. Early map-makers. Terra Australis. Dutch navigators. Emmerie Mollineux's map. Tasman and Dampier. The Petites Lettres of Maupertuis. De Brosses and his Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes. French voyages that originated from it. Bougainville; Marion-Dufresne; La Perouse; Bruni Dentrecasteaux.
Cahier of the "Instituteurs des petites villes, bourgs, et villages de Bourgogne," Rev. des deux Mondes, April 15, 1881, 874.
Perhaps you had better advertise in 'Les Petites Affiches. You ask too much for the habitues of this neighbourhood, one hundred francs a month." "But the lodging is furnished, and well too, and has four rooms. One hundred francs are not much." A thought flashed upon Graham. "Pardon, Monsieur," he said, "have you an appartement de garcon to let furnished?" "Yes, Monsieur, a charming one.
Earles threw down his pen with a little exclamation. "Come this way," he said. He opened the door of still another room, in one corner of which was a grand piano. He seated himself before it. "Go to the far corner," he said, "and sing the last verse of Les Petites." He struck a note, and Anna responded. Playing with one hand he turned on his stool to glance at her.
Cloud Versailles ... anywhere you like. Most probably there's a fête going on somewhere, if we only knew where," "Can't we find out?" "Oh, yes we can drop into a Café and look at the Petites Affiches; only that entails an absinthe; or we can go into the nearest Omnibus Bureau and see the notices on the walls, which will be cheaper."
It is very striking to see the difference between the women of this type, the petites maîtresses who require the utmost attention and almost servility from man, and the noble dignity of service which the pure woman can afford to give which she finds, indeed, that it belongs to the very purity and nobleness of her womanhood to give.
Please tell her that they've seen me and that it's 'all right, as the English say. She'll understand. Oh, and be so good as to tell her I'm appointed secretary of the committee.... But she'll understand! You know, les petites misères de la vie humaine," he said, as it were apologizing to the princess. "And Princess Myakaya not Liza, but Bibish is sending a thousand guns and twelve nurses.
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