United States or Jersey ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
The rissoles and pies, half of which I have not got through, begin to smell bitter.... I shove them under somebody else's seat, together with the remains of the vodka. All the houses look flattened out, and as though they had long needed replastering, the roofs want painting, the shutters are closed....
The replastering of the stonework soon tired him: so he contented himself with patching up the church walls all round to a height of some six feet from the ground. La Teuse mixed the plaster.
But before Senor Gomez had done with his tenants, he made them pay for the whitewashing and the replastering of the whole house, which he held to have been infected by Chopin. And now let us turn once more from George Sand's poetical inventions, distortions, and exaggerations, to the comparative sobriety and trustworthiness of letters. Chopin to Fontana; Palma, December 3, 1838:
To sketch this person will be to paint a portion of the youth of the day. The digression is history. This young man had already, during previous visits to Paris, tried his rope, like an acrobat, and had recognized the great vice of the social replastering of 1830. He meant to turn it to his own profit, following the example of the longest heads of the bourgeoisie.
Word Of The Day