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I am watched I am dogged I am imprisoned I am examined. 'You know zis Giuseppe Belloni? 'Meine Herrn! he was to come. I leave word at Paris for him, at Geneve, at Stresa, to bring his daughter to ze Conservatoire, for which I pay. She has a voice or she had." "Has!" exclaimed Emilia. "Had!" Mr. Pericles repeated. "She has!" "Zen sing!" with which thunder of command, Mr.
Two peasants visited this cave three times in the winter season, viz. on October 22, November 26, and on Christmas Day; and one of them, by name Chavan, drew up an account of their experiences, which was read by M. Colladon before the Société de Physique et d'Histoire Nat. de Genève in 1824.
For him no sun, no moon, no star, no business, no friendship, no plans nothing! The great millstone of life emptily grinding itself away! What a power of vitality was there in Bonnevard, that he did not sink in lethargy, and forget himself to stone! But he did not; it is said that when the victorious Swiss army broke in to liberate him, they cried, "Bonnevard, you are free!" "Et Geneve?"
The Hôtel de Genève is probably the least objectionable of the hotels of Annecy; but the Poste-bureau is at the Hôtel d'Angleterre, and it was much too hot for me to fight with the waiters there, and carry off my knapsack to another house. It is generally a mistake a great mistake to sleep at a house which is the starting-place and the goal of many diligences. All the night through, whips are cracking, bells jingling, and men are shouting hoarsely or blowing hoarser horns. Moreover, the Hôtel d'Angleterre had apparently needed a fresh coat of paint and universal papering for many years, and the latter need had at this crisis been so far grappled with that the old paper had been torn down from the walls and now lay on the various floors, while large pies of malodorous sizing had been planted at the angles of the stairs. The natural salle-
M. de Cosnac, Archbishop of Aix, was at a very advanced age when he learnt that Saint Francois de Sales had been canonized. "What!" cried he, "M. de Geneve, my old friend? I am delighted at his good fortune; he was a gallant man, an amiable man, and an honest man, too, although he would sometimes cheat at piquet, at which we have often played together."
Francis Turretini, his father, took part in the discussion as to the nature of the treaty or contract between God and man, in a piece entitled Foedus Naturæ a primo homine ruptum, ejusque Proevaricationem posteris imputatam . Gaberel's Eglise de Genève, iii. 188. Conf., viii. 215, 216. Conf., viii. 218. Conf., viii. 217.
Journal de Genève, April 25, 1919. On May 6, 1919, at Versailles. Cf. Corriere della Sera, May 10, 1919. Annex W of the Revised Treaty. This incident was revealed by Enrico Ferri, in his remarkable speech in the Italian Parliament on July 9, 1919. Cf. La Stampa, July 10, 1919, page 2. Cf. The Morning Post, July 9, 1919.
Nouveau Voyage vers le Septentrion. Amsterdam, 1708. 12mo. The customs, religion, character, domestic life, &c. of the Norwegians and Laplanders are here sketched in an interesting and pleasant manner. Lettres sur le Danemark. Par Mallet. Genève, 1767. 2 vols. 8vo.
Their last bottle of ordinaire was finished; Gabr, the Kazi, had come into camp, bearing a long official Arabic document from Lieutenant Yusuf, but not a single Journal de Geneve; there was no news of a steamer being sent with rations and forage from Suez: briefly, c'etait embetant to use the milder of the two favourite synonyms.
If possessed of the characteristics of his race 'tall and proud' his activity belies the first line of the old saying, 'Lang and lazy, Little and loud; Red and foolish, Black and proud: Univ. de Genève, First Series, xxi. 113.
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