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«I do not understand that M. de Salvandy has made any pretensions, as a family Ambassador, or has attempted to revive any old privileges of access to the Queen, except under such regulations as the government may deem necessary or expedient. Anything else, of course, ought to be strenuously resisted. With the end of the family compact, the French ambassador must be like any other.
The picture I was doing for the Salon is not yet finished. You may well understand that I can have no pleasure in sending something that is not entirely good, at least that is as good as I may do. I am flattered by the admiration of B.... you find her intelligent; she is so, but when you know her better you will see that the first days she looks more that she is in reality.
They are not liars: they are suffering simply from the effects of a mirage. To understand what is meant by a mirage, you must go to the south of France. There you will find a magic sun which transforms everything, which takes a molehill and makes of it a mountain.
If we are gifted with even a small portion of the imagination possessed by Tartarin and his fellow-townsmen, we can understand how a turnip may after a while come really to be a baobab; if we have not sufficient imagination to admit this possibility, we shall not be able to appreciate the story of the life and adventures of Tartarin de Tarascon.
Comme il traversait la cour de la maison, il se trouva en face de mademoiselle Mary, et, lui adressant une inclination respectueuse: Another time, miss Mary, lui dit-il, take care... I understand english perfectly well. Miss Mary demeura tout
In 17 20-21 we are given to understand that Tartarin's baobab, the most admired of his botanical rarities, is perhaps after all nothing but a turnip, and we are led to suspect that some of the others are not what they pretend to be.
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