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Married up to Ethelwulf of England, and thus stepmother of Alfred the Great, after his death behaving, alas for her! not over wisely or well, she had verified the saying: "Nous revenons toujours A nos premiers amours," and ran away with Baldwin.
Dale had existed to fall to his own lot. His placid Jemima gained by the contrast. Nevertheless he had the ill grace to reply, "Socrates was a man beyond all imitation! Yet I believe that even he spent very few of his evenings at home. But /revenons a nos moutons/, we are nearly at Mrs. Fairfield's cottage, and you have not yet told me what you have settled as to Leonard."
"My brother," said Miss Diana, "is so odd; but he is the most generous of men: besides, the girl has claims upon him." Upon these speeches Mr. Glumford thought himself secure; and inly resolving to punish the fool for her sulkiness and bad taste as soon as he lawfully could, he continued his daily visits and told his sporting acquaintance that his time was coming. Revenons a nos moutons.
Mais revenons a nos moutons: How about the portrait?" Malvina laughed. Her face, greatly troubled an hour before, had grown young again. A certain sunray had pierced the thick cloud at that moment. She warded off the idea of the portrait. "Why? There are too many portraits of me already. Oh, too many!" "Caricatures!" exclaimed Maryan, "and none of them is mine.
But "revenons
Dale had existed to fall to his own lot. His placid Jemima gained by the contrast. Nevertheless he had the ill grace to reply, "Socrates was a man beyond all imitation! Yet I believe that even he spent very few of his evenings at home. But revenons a nos moutons, we are nearly at Mrs. Fairfield's cottage, and you have not yet told me what you have settled as to Leonard."
For an example of the results look to St. Domingo! Under peculiar guidance, and subject to a certain restraint, the negro may be an important and most useful being; but if treated as an Englishman, he will affect the vices but none of the virtues of civilization, and his natural good qualities will be lost in his attempts to become a "white man." Revenons a nos moutons noirs.
Hence this childless Randolph is affecting the course of several lives in the 19th century to their grievous hurt. But revenons a nos moutons that is to say, to our lion and lamb the old brute of a Major and his long-suffering son.
Revenons un peu en arrière et voici une autre jolie ironie.
I kept prospecting for sharks very close before I swam it, with my clothes on my head. I was in awful luck all the way, though, not one of them had a snap at me." "But about the taboo pig? Revenons a nos cochons!" "I'm coming to that. Well, we landed at an island we had never been on before, where there was a village of Coast natives.
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