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He changed colour; and was visibly moved, as the ambassador gave his version of the recent conference with Cecil and the other ministers, and, being thus artfully stimulated, he was, prepared to receive with much eagerness the portentous communications now to be made.
We've rammed a sand bank, or stuck her nose into the bottom in some shallow place, I'm afraid. We can't go ahead or back up." "Do you mean we're stuck, as we were in the mud bank?" asked Mr. Hardley. "Yes," answered Tom, and Earle nodded to confirm that version of it. "But we'll get out!" declared Tom. "This is only a slight accident.
Elle et Lui, which, perhaps because it is short and associated with actual facts, is the most frequently discussed in general conversation on her work, remains probably the sanest account of a sentimental experiment which was ever written. How far it may have seemed accurate to De Musset is not to the point. Her version of her grievance is at least convincing.
It is, however, a history from the official standpoint, and is consequently one-sided as well as inaccurate in certain respects. Again, the English version of the History of the Commune put together by one of its partisans, Lissagaray, sins in the other direction. An impartial account of the rising remains to be written.
The royal annalist once read me a page or so, translating as he went; but the passage being genealogical, and the author boggling extremely in his version, I own I have been sometimes better entertained.
This will be to the bearer of it a tree of life giving twelve crops of fruits, a crop of every month, a perennial, alike in heat and frost, in storm and drought, and with a peculiar healing quality in its green leaves for all men. The revised version gives a fine turn to this old bit, exactly reversing the first statement. "He that is wise winneth souls."
The second verse, so I imagined, I sang in the voice of a trumpet. The burly gentleman the translator of the French libretto, as he turned out to be; the author of the English version, as he preferred to be called acknowledged to having distinctly detected a sound. The restless-eyed comedian suggested an announcement from the stage requesting strict silence during my part of the performance.
"By the way," he asked; "how did you get so much knocked about? In the war, was it?" "Now, didn't I just tell you it was a case of secret dungeons and " "Yes, that version is for Signora Grassini's benefit. Really, I suppose it was in the war with Brazil?" "Yes, I got a bit hurt there; and then hunting in the savage districts and one thing and another." "Ah, yes; on the scientific expedition.
But that was under the wholly new conditions of the seventeenth century, when both French and English expected to make something out of what are now the United States and Canada. The point of the witling joke against La Salle was a new version of the old adage: Go farther and fare worse.
With the consciousness of guilt upon him, causing him to startle at the first aspect of peril, it is singular that the man should have had the temerity to trust himself in so trying a position. His version of the Mary Carver affair was a very wretched piece of fiction.
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