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Yes, begad! revenons a nous moutons. Well, that brougham is mine if I choose, between four and seven. Just as much mine as if I jobbed it from Tilbury's, begad, for thirty pound a month. Sir Hugh is the best natured fellow in the world; and if it hadn't been so fine an afternoon as it is, you and I would have been in that brougham at this very minute on our way to Grosvenor Place.
"It is done," he said, with a little shrug, and if his face was for a moment bitter it quickly enough became impassive. "It is done, and it cannot be undone unless Hartley can undo it. And now, revenons
Here it was that our acquaintance first took place; doubtless, my readers will, long ere this, have recognized in the hospitable gentleman I encountered there, my friend's husband, and, in the delicate-looking youth who had so attracted my attention, the fair Harriette herself. But REVENONS A NOS MOUTONS.
"I'm sure I don't know what you mean," Mrs. Cary declared plaintively. "There are moments, Beatrice, when I think you talk nonsense." "I am sure you do!" An ironical smile played an instant round the small mouth, then she went on calmly: "Let us put our personal grievances against each other aside, mother. Revenons a nos moutons. You were saying, when I interrupted you, that you were afraid of Mr.
If it was the same God who gave both orders he changed his mind completely, and having changed it once he may change it again. In that case the Koran will succeed the New Testament, and the Imitation of Christ give place to the Arabian Nights. Revenons a nos moutons. The Kreutzer Sonata is a terrible story, but like all novels with a purpose, it is inartistic.
The dandy horse of past days has been known to overtake the SLOW COACH. "Do I make myself understood? "Very well, then! Permit me, Mr. Pooter, to advise you to accept the verb. sap. Acknowledge your defeat, and take your whipping gracefully; for remember you threw down the glove, and I cannot claim to be either mentally or physically a COWARD! "Revenons a nos moutons.
I cannot think so; I believe it is the stone about our necks that drags us down, and is intended to do so, and which keeps us truly from being "but a little lower than the angels." "Revenons
And now, revenons a nos processions, where can we find a place for them?" "Surely," said I, "some such combination will include them unless they have nothing to do with art." "I have thought that perhaps they have nothing to do with art, for art should not be tainted with utility; but religious pictures are tainted with utility just as much. Besides, I do not like to confess myself beaten."
Why even the sun would no more spin without a rider than would a cycle-pedal. But, since we have innumerable planets to reckon with, in the spinning we must not begin to define the rider in terms of our own exclusive planet. Nevertheless, rider there is: even a rider of the many-wheeled universe. But let us leave the universe alone. It is too big a bauble for me. Revenons.
"A very pious manner of spending his time," Pen said, laughing and thinking that his uncle was falling into the twaddling state. "Gad, sir, that is not the question. A man of his estate may employ his time as he chooses. "And so that was his brougham, sir, was it?" the nephew said with almost a sneer. "His brougham O ay, yes! and that brings me back to my point revenons a nos moutons.