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You see," she added, with her lovely smile, "nous vous aimons bien." I was very glad to have the answers. I copy them for you. A quelle qualite donnez-vous la preference? A la gratitude. Quels sont vos auteurs favoris? Tacite. Quelles sont vos occupations favorites? Chercher la solution de problemes insolubles. Qui voudriez-vous etre? Mon petit fils.

M. de Whiskerburg was a young man, tall, with a fine figure, and fine features. In short, a sort of Hungarian Apollo; only his beard, his mustachios, his whiskers, his favoris, his padishas, his sultanas, his mignonettas, his dulcibellas, did not certainly entitle him to the epithet of imberbis, and made him rather an apter representative of the Hungarian Hercules.

Le Vassor, vol. i. pp. 614-617. Déageant, Mém. pp. 43-56. Bassompierre, Mém. pp. 123, 124. Siri, Mém. Rec. vol. iv. pp. 26, 27. Relation de la mort du Maréchal d'Ancre, at the end of the Histoire des Favoris. Déageant, Mém. pp. 56, 57. Richelieu, Mém. book viii. p. 416. Brienne, Mém. vol. i. p. 300 note. Déageant, Mém. p. 48. Le Vassor, vol. i. pp. 625, 626. Brienne, Mém. vol. i. p. 329.

On the Russian sovereigns: R. N. Bain, The First Romanovs, 1613-1725 , and, by the same author, Pupils of Peter the Great: a History of the Russian Court and Empire from 1697 to 1740 ; Eugene Schuyler, Peter the Great, 2 vols. , a scholarly work; Kazimierz Waliszewski, Peter the Great, an admirable study trans. from the French by Lady Mary Loyd , and, by the same author, though not as yet translated, L'heritage de Pierre le Grand: regne des femmes, gouvernement des favoris, 1725-1741 and La derniere des Romanov, Elisabeth R ; Alexander Bruckner, Peter der Grosse , and, by the same author, Katharina die Zweite , important German works, in the Oncken Series; E. A. B. Hodgetts, The Life of Catherine the Great of Russia , a recent fair-minded treatment in English.

Un de ses goûts favoris est la chasse aux chiens et aux oiseaux. Il a, dit-on, plus de mille chiens et plus de deux mille oiseaux dressés, et de diverses espèces; j'en ai vu moi-même une très-grande partie.

However, we heard music in an adjoining hall. "It is a surprise," said the President to us, "they are the musicians from the Opera." A minute afterwards programmes written with a pen were handed round. They indicated that the following five selections were being played: 1. Priere de la "Muette." 2. Fantaisie sur des airs favoris de la "Reine Hortense." 3. Final de "Robert Bruce". 4.