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After we had duly admired these decorations, and listened with patience to the old man's garrulous talk about them, he told us that he had yet another to show, one presented to him many years ago by a great man of that day, a man embalmed for all posterity on account of his unrivalled performances upon the tight-rope, a man of whom he reduced all description to mendicancy in designating him as un danseur très-renommé sur la corde tendue.
On the 28th of the same month I find this phrase in one of his letters: "Ma position est plus tendue que jamais et les changements survenus dans notre administration me donnent des craintes serieuses pour l'avenir." Then we learned that a project for lighting Bucharest with gas was on foot, and that my father was to go there to ascertain the chances of success.
If he did such things, the old Huronite was foggy upon the subject and reserved, limiting his assertions to the statement, that "the British actor" was a farceur, and likewise un danseur très-renommé sur la corde tendue. Long afterwards, when I resided at Quebec, my visits to Lorette were very frequent.
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