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His odes, indeed, are an alternation of upward jerks and concussions, and smack more of Chapelain than of the Theban, but his prose is very agreeable, Montaigne and water, perhaps, but with some flavor of the Gascon wine left. The strophe of his ode to Dr.
"M. Chapelain pretends that at a certain time my father had at least fifty thousand francs a year." "It's bewildering." For two or three minutes M. de Tregars remained silent, reviewing in his mind every imaginable eventuality, and then, "But no matter," he resumed. "As soon as I heard this morning the amount of the deficit, doubts came to my mind.
The members of this academy would have had a very great advantage over those who first formed that of the French, for Swift, Prior, Congreve, Dryden, Pope, Addison, &c. had fixed the English tongue by their writings; whereas Chapelain, Colletet, Cassaigne, Faret, Perrin, Cotin, our first academicians, were a disgrace to their country; and so much ridicule is now attached to their very names, that if an author of some genius in this age had the misfortune to be called Chapelain or Cotin, he would be under a necessity of changing his name.
"But those people must spend millions!" interrupted M. Chapelain. M. Favoral started as if he had been slapped on the back. "Bash!" he answered. "They are so rich, so awfully rich!" He changed the conversation that evening; but on the following Saturday, from the very beginning of the dinner, "I believe," he said, "that M. de Thaller has just discovered a husband for his daughter."
Our misfortune has revealed to us a true friend, one who does not speak, but acts." At last, as twelve o'clock struck, M. Chapelain withdrew, announcing that he would return the next day to get the news, and to bring further consolation. "Thank Heaven, we are alone at last!" said Mlle. Gilberte. But they had not much peace, for all that.
"Whoever she may be, I admit that she may have cost M. Favoral considerable sums. But can she have cost him twelve millions?" "Precisely the remark which M. Chapelain made." "And which every sensible man must also make.
In another letter written to Chapelain , he says: "Whatever comes from Grotius is a high recommendation of him to me; and besides the solidity of his learning, the strength of his reasoning, and the graces of his language, I observe in it an air of probity, that one may put entire confidence in him, excepting in what regards our Church, to which he is unhappily a stranger."
I guess you are going to see a future son-in-law!" At nine o'clock, just as they had passed into the parlor, the sound of carriage-wheels startled the Rue St. Gilles. "There he is!" exclaimed the cashier of the Mutual Credit. And, throwing open a window: "Come, Gilberte," he added, "come and see his carriage and horses." She never stirred; but M. Desclavettes and M. Chapelain ran.
But if you go right about it, above all, if our dear Gilberte will take the matter in hand." "Sir!" "Oh! I swear I sha'n't say a word about it, either to Desormeaux or Chapelain, nor to any one else. Although reimbursed, I'll make as much noise as the rest, more noise, even. Come, now, my dear friends, what do you say?" He was almost crying.
"When he was purposing to publish it," says the History of the Academy, "he desired M. Chapelain to look over it, and make careful observations upon it.
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