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George Sand has noted Chopin's emotional versatility in the matter of falling in and out of love. He could accomplish both of an evening and a crumpled roseleaf was sufficient cause to induce frowns and capricious flights decidedly a young man tres difficile. He played at the "Ressource" in November, 1829, the Variations, opus 2.
The new Bishop is at Gloucester, as I am told, with his family; c'est une faible ressource, but it is one; they are represented to me as very agreeable people. Other company we shall have none, I take for granted, and that Mie Mie, finding herself so much alone, will be glad to return to Richmond. ... I am most excessively concerned for poor Lord Waldgrave.
La Romette was to the "purchasers of wardrobes" what these women are to the better class of so-called ladies in difficulties Madame la Ressource, that is to say, money-lenders at a hundred per cent. "Now, child," said Asie, "I have got to be figged out. I must be a Baroness of the Faubourg Saint-Germain at the very least. And sharp's the word, for my feet are in hot oil.
At the 'Ressource' I met yesterday in the afternoon an old friend of his, who told me how sad and unhappy Leesten was. His eldest daughter is betrothed to a young country gentleman: the two young folks would like to marry, but they have no money.
Sloth, indolence, and 'mollesse' are pernicious and unbecoming a young fellow; let them be your 'ressource' forty years hence at soonest.
In that old maid there's always something of Madame la Ressource in Moliere's 'Miser." "I think, Monsieur le maire, that you are mistaken," said Phellion. "Madame la Ressource is a character in 'Turcaret, a very immoral play by the late Le Sage." "Do you think so?" said Minard. "Well, very likely.
"O! ressource assuree, Viens ranimer leur langueur desoeuvree: Leur ame vide est du moins amusee Par l'avarice en plaisir deguisee." Gaming relieved me from that insuperable listlessness by which I was oppressed. I became interested I became agitated; in short, I found a new kind of stimulus, and I indulged in it most intemperately.
But, you see, Amelia, it would not do. We went to the 'Ressource, and there I met some old friends " "And there we played faro," his wife interrupted him, "and I lost the two hundred louis d'ors with which I desired to buy four new carriage-horses." "Yes, it is all true," said Blucher, soothingly. "But what matters it?
'Le pauvre Monseigneur d'Elbeuf, Qui n'avait aucun ressource, Et qui ne mangeait que du boeuf. Le pauvre Monseigneur d'Elbeuf, A maintenant un habit neuf Et quelques justes dans sa bourse. Le pauvre Monseigneur d'Elbeuf, Qui n'avait aucun ressource. There was more sense in taking the Duke of Bouillon, though he was not his brother, M. de Turenne. These young men were in high spirits.
Petersburg there were few wits, and her intellectual superiority to those about her was sufficient to gain her the nickname among her husband's friends of "Madame la Ressource." Despite Peter's difficult relations with her, he would refer to her in most of his perplexities, especially when political, connected with his duchy of Holstein.
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