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54 10 se lancent: 'are launching out, ='are getting started, i.e. in a disreputable life. 54 12 Le vrai coup d'oeil: 'the real spectacle', coup d'oeil = 'glance, and hence 'view' such as may be taken in all at once. 54 15 tapis verts: the green coverings of the gaming tables turcos: 'Turcos, native soldiers of the French army in Algeria. 54 18 l'argent d'une charrue: 'the price of a plow.
It is very unlikely that I should have intentionally done any thing that could be personally disagreeable to him. You say he mentioned three circumstances with regard to which he seemed to think I had taken a course unnecessarily embarrassing to him, and I will try to explain to you my course upon each occasion.
At the last minute the death sentence was commuted to imprisonment for life and Cornelius was taken directly from the scaffold to the state prison of Loewestein near Dordrecht.
III: «Let the forfeit be nominated for an equal pound of your fair flesh, to be cut and taken, in what part of your body pleaseath me.»
68 10 vieille fée: read "Les Fées de France" in "Contes du lundi." 68 19 remis: more colloquial than reconnu. 68 20 du corps que vous avez pris: 'of the flesh you have taken on. 68 21 coquin de bon sort: cf. note to 1 12. 68 24 Mais enfin: 'But, tell me.
That although they were ready to perform all neighbourly offices of righteousness and peace to the French colony, yet they could neither permit volunteers to be taken up, nor the French and Eastern Indians to pass thro' the English jurisdiction to invade the Mohawks, lest they should expose, not the Indians only, but the smaller English plantations to danger.
Van Baerle was ignorant of what had happened at Harlem and supposed he was being taken to the place of execution.
I have been particularly strenuous in my application, that in the choice of these gentlemen, great care may be taken that their characters are fair and that they may possess the advantages of good education and talents, and I trust, that I shall not be disappointed in my expectations respecting them. «Mr.
37 9 Machine, stop! Stop in machine, stop! is an imperative taken directly from the English. 37 10 plus rien: cf. notes to 13 1 and 4 23 Rien que: cf. 1 17. 37 19 Alger la blanche: 'Algiers, capital of Algeria, about 500 miles from Marseilles. For the epithet blanche, see next note.
No one was calm or indifferent; every one sought to rise, to please, to serve, or to injure; every one was taken up with pleasure or intrigue.... All the different cliques were separated by rivalry or envy.
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