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John had brought the message himself, and delivered it verbally to Rosine, who had not scrupled to follow the steps of M. Emanuel, then passing to the first classe, and, in his presence, stand "carrement" before my desk, hand in apron-pocket, and rehearse the same, saucily and aloud, concluding with the words, "Qu'il est vraiment beau, Mademoiselle, ce jeune docteur! Quels yeux quel regard! Tenez!
And she has been fooled in the first place because her provinces have been pillaged they say the Holy Russian army loots terribly her army is destroyed, her capital taken, and all this for the beaux yeux * of His Sardinian Majesty.
He means to show how powerful he is, how good he is, and how much he is willing to do for her beaux yeux; yes, I see it all now. But we'll be too many for him yet, Mr Harding; he said, turning to his companion with some gravity, and pressing his hand on the other's arm. 'It would, perhaps, be better for you to lose the hospital than get it on such terms.
D'abord on fit passer sous ses yeux les présens, qu'il parut
"The poor fellow is mad for your beaux yeux, I believe," Strong said. "He is a very good cook, but he is not quite right in the head." "What did you say to him in the unknown tongue?" asked Miss Blanche. "He is a Gascon, and comes from the borders of Spain," Strong answered. "I told him he would lose his place if he walked with you." "Poor Monsieur Mirobolant!" said Blanche.
"Well now," she continued, "what if I bring him alone out of the palace, to some quiet corner of the Park the Flying Mercury, for instance? Gordon can be posted in the thicket; the carriage wait behind the temple; not a cry, not a scuffle, not a footfall; simply, the Prince vanishes! What do you say? Am I an able ally? Are my beaux yeux of service?
'Ce n'est pas pour leurs beaux yeux au moins'. No, but for their own sakes, for commendations and applause. Let me then recommend this principle of vanity to you; act upon it 'meo periculo'; I promise you it will turn to your account. Practice all the arts that ever coquette did, to please. Be alert and indefatigable in making every man admire, and every woman in love with you.
"Votre musique est si gaie, si pleine d'entrain." "Vous trouvez! Vous etes bien bonne. Je ne sais comment cela arrive. Il n'y a pas de motifs parmi ceux qu'on trouve heureux, que je n'ai pas ecrit entre deux baillements. Je pourrais," he went on, "vous montrer tel passage ou ma plume a fait un long zigzag parce que mes yeux se sont fermes et ma tete tombait sur la partition.
We found him employed in finishing a portrait of Lady Godolphin. "He, he!" cried he, when he beheld me approach. "By Got, I am glad to see you, Count Tevereux; dis painting is tamned poor work by one's self, widout any one to make des grands yeux, and cry, 'Oh, Sir Godfrey Kneller, how fine dis is!"
M. de Luc, after having long believed that the strata of the Alps had been formed like those of the low countries, at the bottom of the sea, gives an account of the occasion by which he was first confirmed in the opposite opinion. Like a true philosopher, he gives us the reason of this change. "Ce fut une espèce de montagne très commune, et que j'avois souvent examinée qui dessilla mes yeux.
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