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Le sort, plein d'injustice M'ayant enfin rendu Ce reste un pur supplice, Je serais plus heureux si j'avais tout perdu!" A sudden swoop of the wind shook the very rafters of the house as though some great bird had grasped it with beak and talons, and Priscilla stopped her swift needle, drawing it out to its full length of linen thread and holding it there.
In all Europe there is no more genial companion and gallant gentleman than the aristocrat of France pur sang in all the world no more terrible adversary than her wiry, well-trained soldier; but, from the prolific decay of old institutions and prejudices, a mushroom growth has sprouted of child-atheists and precocious profligates, calculating debauchees while their cheeks are still innocent of down, who, after the effervescence of a foul, vicious youth has spent itself, simmer down into avaricious, dishonest bourgeois and bloated café politicians.
It will be seen that I succeeded amply; and I am bound to say I think the passage exceptional in Shakespeare exceptional, indeed, in literature; but it was not I who chose it. 'The BaRge she sat iN, like a BURNished throNe BURNT oN the water: the POOP was BeateN gold, PURPle the sails and so PUR* Fumed that * per The wiNds were love-sick with them.
"It's not cheek; I meant it," said Dickie at last, speaking very earnestly. "You'll see, some of these days. I read an interesting Nar Rataive about a Lion the King of Beasts and a Mouse, that small and Ty Morous animal, which if you have not heard it I will now Pur seed to relite." "You're a rum little kid, I don't think," said the man. "Where do you learn such talk?"
"I want her to learn; and this is a good opportunity," put in her father. "You are right. It is a capital exercise and a graceful accomplishment," said Edgar. "I think a woman never looks better than when she is skating," he added carelessly. "I think she looks silly," said Leam. He laughed. "That is because you are not English pur sang," he cried gayly.
People liked them well enough when Biddy was with them, but they didn't care for her mother and her, that prospect tout pur, and Biddy was cooped up indefinitely with Julia. This was not the manner in which Grace had anciently alluded to her sister's happy visits at Harsh, and the change of tone made Nick wince with a sense of all that had collapsed.
The un- fortunate are yet gazing in vain for golden- edged clouds they fancied would appear in their horizon. The good man feels that he has accom- plished too little for the Master, and sighs that another day must so soon close. Innocent child- hood, weary of its stay, longs for another mor- row; busy manhood cries, hold! hold! and pur- sues it to another's dawn. All are dissatisfied.
I am called Heliobas. A strange name? Oh, not at all! It is pure Chaldee. My mother as lovely an Eastern houri as Murillo's Madonna, and as devout as Santa Teresa gave me the Christian saint's name of Casimir also, but Heliobas pur et simple suits me best, and by it I am generally known. "'You are a Chaldean? I inquired. "'Exactly so.
The portrait of his grandfather had the features and aspect of the philosopher, only much more exaggerated: he was not dressed, and the colour of his body was singular; the breast and stomach yellow, the shoulders and legs of a dull bronze hue: the great-grandfather was a magnificent specimen of the Batrachian genus, a Giant Frog, 'pur et simple.
We manage so as to meet her only in public when we can put leading questions as we please.... When all is said, the earth goes round none the less, e pur se muove; the laws of the world are obeyed, and the free mind beholds them.
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