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This practitioner, a man with tufted whiskers and eye-glasses, presided over the radical committee of electors, and when the curé took up a little collection among his devotees for the purpose of adorning his church with some frightful red and gilded statues, denounced, in a letter to the Siècle, the cupidity of the Jesuits.
Some years ago the slums of London and Paris were inundated with romances published in this fashion and continued so long as they maintained a remunerative circulation; in many cases, they ended abruptly, in others they extended, like Le Diable au XIX^e Siècle to hundreds of issues; they possess special characteristics which are known to experts in the by-ways of periodical literature, and all these are to be found in the narrative of Dr Bataille.
Any way it is all just about as queer and fin de siècle as I can well imagine. Look here, it is nearly twelve, let's dispose of ourselves, if we are going to hunt this thing down." The four chambers on this floor of the old house were those said to be haunted, the wings being quite innocent, and, so far as we knew, the floors below.
Of course to one so modern as I am, 'Enfant de mon siecle, merely to look at the world will be always lovely.
But to see only that side of him is to think, as the shepherd boy piped, 'as though' you will 'never grow old. Does he never appeal to you with any more human significance, a significance tearful and uncomfortably symbolic? Or are you so entirely that tailor's fraction of manhood, the fin de siècle type, that your ninth part does not include a heart and the lachrymal gland?
Believe that they are cynical, and fin de siècle, and skeptical of all women when you hear two men talk, and the next day you hear that one of them has shot himself on the grave of his sweetheart. Believe that politeness is the ruling characteristic of the country because a man kisses your hand when he takes leave of you.
We will fight until the French acknowledge us as having rights and position equal to their own, till the organs of their Government cease from their New Year animadversion, such as the 'Siecle' has published, and we will crush everyone who calls in question our place as one of the Great Powers of Europe; and in thus rooting out this boast of supremacy, we believe we are earning the gratitude of all Europe.
Great men's words, like little men's dreams, are sometimes to be interpreted by the rule of contraries. To MRS. MARY SNEYD. PARIS, Jan. 10, 1803. Siecle reparateur, as Monge has christened this century. I will give you a journal of yesterday: I know you love journals.
Voltaire sent me, from Berlin, his 'History du Siecle de Louis XIV. It came at a very proper time; Lord Bolingbroke had just taught me how history should be read; Voltaire shows me how it should be written. I am sensible that it will meet with almost as many critics as readers.
His glance relaxed at once, and he laughingly explained to her that what he asked of her was to keep the prey in sight. 'I can do nothing for myself at present, he said; 'I get on her nerves. She was in love with that black-haired, enfant du siècle, or rather, she prefers to assume that she was and I haven't given her time to forget him. A serious blunder, and I deserve to suffer for it.
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