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She herself has described it: "Toujours extreme en mes desirs, Jadis, enfant joyeuse et folle, Souvent une seule parole Bouleversait tous mes plaisirs." But what a fine instrument she possesses! what strength of soul! what wealth of imagination! December 3, 1872. What a strange dream!
I inflicted my French on my chums at meals, on defenseless drivers of 'buses who could not rise and go away, and on the Blessed Damozel, who said: "Va donc, cherches-toi une fille. C'est la seule manière d'apprendre le Français." I was vaguely thrilled by this idea, the more because so far in my life I had had no experience of the kind.
[Footnote 31: This version has, I believe, not been refuted. Still, I must look on it with suspicion. No Minister, who had done so much to stir up the war-feeling, ought to have made any such confession least of all against a lady, who could not answer it. M. Seignobos in his Political History of Contemporary Europe, vol. i. chap. vi. p. 184 (Eng edit.) says of Gramont: "He it was who embroiled France in the war with Prussia." In the course of the parliamentary inquiry of 1872 Gramont convicted himself and his Cabinet of folly in 1870 by using these words: "Je crois pouvoir déclarer que si on avait eu un doute, un seule doute, sur notre aptitude
Rousseau in the same way makes the Savoyard Vicar declare that 'jamais le jargon de la métaphysique n'a fait découvrir une seule vérité, et il a rempli la philosophie d'absurdités dont on a honte, sitôt qu'on les dépouille de leurs grands mots. Emile, liv. iv. Sartor Resartus, bk. iii. ch. viii. p. 249. Ib. p. 257. Natural Supernaturalism, the title of one of the cardinal chapters in Mr.
I don't think you much care whom it may chance to be, Bertie." "If a woman is pretty, to me it's no matter Be she blonde or brunette, so she let me look at her." "Were you thinking of those lines in 'Lucille'?" "Them's your sentiments to a T, I should say." "And you ought to have lived in the days when the knight had 'Une seule' embroidered on his banner.
* The Jacobins and the Moderates, who could agree in nothing else, were here perfectly in unison; so that on the same day we see the usual invectives of Barrere succeeded by menaces equally ridiculous from Pelet and Tallien "La seule chose dont nous devons nous occuper est d'ecraser ce gouvernement infame." Discours de Pelet, 14 Nov.
Ma seule amie
"Mais elle est tombee en enfance," he added aside to the General. "Seule, elle fera des betises." More than this I could not overhear, but he seemed to have got some plan in his mind, or even to be feeling a slight return of his hopes. The distance to the Casino was about half a verst, and our route led us through the Chestnut Avenue until we reached the square directly fronting the building.
Possibly he may have meant to be kind; but I saw BORGIA written all over him. I refused his offer with effusion. When he asked me my age, he said, insinuatingly, "Vous etes bien jeune, Madame, pour circuler seule ainsi dans Paris." I answered, "Je ne suis pas seule, Monsieur. I considered this extremely diplomatic.
"What else do you suppose?" she retorted. "Are you going only to sit here, and grow sour, and let me look at you?" "Madame," said De Griers confidentially, "les chances peuvent tourner. Une seule mauvaise chance, et vous perdrez tout surtout avec votre jeu. C'etait terrible!" "Oui; vous perdrez absolument," put in Mlle. Blanche. "What has that got to do with YOU?" retorted the old lady.
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