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The Wit and Harlequin Dominic sometimes dined at the table of Louis XIV. Tiberio Florillo, who invented the character of Scaramouch, had been the amusing companion of the boyhood of Louis XIV.; and from him Molière learnt much, as appears by the verses under his portrait: Cet illustre comédien De son art traça la carrière: II fut le maître de Molière, Et la Nature fut le sien.

All this intelligence she wrote home, piecemeal as it came about, from time to time; and at last enclosed a polite note, from the head of the chateau, soliciting, on the occasion of his approaching mission to that neighbourhood, the honour of the company of cet homme si justement celebre, Monsieur le Capitaine Richard Doubledick.

Si bien que sans rien perdre, en bravant cet usage, On pourrait retrancher la moitie d'un ouvrage." "Bravo! Very good!" broke in the King, who felt the sting of the satire but could control himself. "But do you think that the Emperor will understand that at any rate as you intend it?" "If he does not understand it, then he is a blockhead...."

"Non lo so. Put on your chapeau and come. Il fait tres beau cet apres-midi." Doro was very proud of his French, which made Artois secretly shiver, and generally spoke it when he was in specially good spirits, or was feeling unusually mischievous. As they walked along the sea-front a moment later, he continued in Italian: "You were not at the island yesterday, Emilio?" "No. Were you?"

Cet animal a le peau noir pour le plupart, et porte un cercle blanchatre autour de son cou. On le trouve tous les jours aux dits salons, ou il demeure, digere, s'il y a de quoi dans son interieur, respire, tousse, eternue, dort, et ronfle quelquefois, ayant toujours le semblance de lire. On ne sait pas s'il a une autre gite que cela.

The spectacle of Mr. Gladstone finding thirty-four rhymes to the name 'Margot' seems to you rather pathetic than anything else. Mallarme's envelopes with their versified addresses leave you cold, unless they leave you pitiful; you can't see that 'Apte a ne point te cabrer, hue! Poste et j'ajouterai, dia! Si tu ne fuis onze-bis Rue Balzac, chez cet Heredia, is a little miracle."

He looked from time to time through the key-hole of the closet in which Forester was confined, and exclaimed, "Grand Dieu! comme il a l'air noble a cet instant! Ah! lui coupable! he go to gaol! it is impossible!" "We shall see how that will be presently," said the foreman, who had hitherto preserved absolute silence. "I abide by my books," said the master-tailor; "and I wish Dr.

"L'adresse et l'artifice out passe dans mon coeur; Qu'ou a sous cet habit et d'esprit et de ruse."* REGNARD. * Subtility and craft have taken possession of my heart; but under this habit one exhibits both shrewdness and wit.

Si cet etat de choses doit perseverer, ne parlons plus de l'inquisition, nous en avons perdu le droit, car la liberte des cultes n'est que dans les decrets, et la persecution tiraille toute la France. James?" "In Turkey the liberty of worship is admitted, though it does not exist in France.

Though of traitors, the villain Dreyfus was of the most horrible. Let us speak of cet homme très sale, Dawson. I do not know his plans. They will be shrewd, but without imagination, without flair. He will watch, with his eyes of a cat, the French and Belgian flying officers who come to London, but he will not discover their secrets.