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The matrons invariably refused; but at last the young men decided to mention a handsome husband to offer, and they replied by addressing the bride, and singing to her with the men: "Ouvrez la porte, ouvrez, Marie, ma mignonne, C'est un beau man qui vient vous chercher. Allons, ma mie, laissons-les entrer."
So the god Eros begins his battles, which end in perpetual victory, first fear and shame, then desire and passion, then conquest and possession. And afterwards? ah! . . . afterwards the pagan deity is powerless, a higher God, a grander force, a nobler creed must carry Love to its supreme and best fulfillment. "Le vent qui vient a travers la montagne M'a rendu fou!"
Nous serions heureux, la Comtesse de Paris et moi, si durant cet ete vous pouviez, avec Madame et Mademoiselle Reeve, renouveler la visite que vous nous avez faite au chateau d'Eu il y a trois ans. Depuis lors la maison a ete toujours en deuil; l'evenement qui vient de s'accomplir ici nous permet, j'aime a le croire, une annee plus heureuse.
L'Ambassadeur en Allemagne au Ministre des Affaires Etrangères. Berlin, le 17/30 Juillet 1914. J'apprends que le décret de mobilisation de l'armée et de la flotte allemandes vient d'être promulgué. No. 62. L'Ambassadeur en Allemagne au Ministre des Affaires Etrangères. Berlin, le 17/30 Juillet 1914.
"Continuez, Gustave Adolphe," replied the old negro, with a majestic air. Gustave Adolphe, with another bow, resumed: "I say where com?" "Barbadoes," replied Newton. "Monsieur, il vient de Barbadoes." "Continuez, Gustave Adolphe," replied his superior, with a wave of his hand. "I say where go?" "Where go?" replied Newton, "go to the bottom." "Monsieur, il allait au port de Bo tom."
The King was the nominal president, but the real authority was possessed by the Russian ambassador. The partition was not fully arranged till 1774, and then Prussia and Austria began to extend their bounds beyond the agreed limits. L'appetit vient en mangeant, and these encroachments were a sad augury of future partitions to the Poles.
Was it possible for any man with a drop of warm blood flowing through his veins, not to feel a quicker heart-beat, a swifter pulse, at the entrancing, half-melancholy, half-mocking sweetness she infused into these lines? "Je pars, et sur ma levre ardente Brule encor ton dernier baiser. Entre mes bras, chere imprudente Ton beau front vient de reposer. Sens-tu mon coeur, comme il palpite?
I frequently smile at the vast pains and precautions of which my 'sacred person' is the object; and I am continually encountering 'by chance' some of those fair ladies who would fain usurp your place, sometimes bedecked with jewels rare, and sometimes, as Racine says, " dans le simple appareil D'une beaute, qu'on vient d'arracher au sommeil.
Ambulances were passing and re-passing, the slightly wounded men in cars open at the back, the more serious cases in closed cars, and everywhere the same va et vient of lorries and wagons, of staff-cars and motor-cyclists. It was not right for us to add to the congestion in the road. Moreover, the hours were drawing on, and the great sight was still to come.
Sainte-Beuve says, "Il vient un age peut-etre quand on n'ecrit plus." This is the only allusion I have read to the possibility that the sources of literature, varied and infinite as they seem now, may sometime be exhausted. It surprises me to find that such an idea has crossed the mind of any one, especially of a highly gifted critic.
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