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The flames crept slowly around its silken envelope. "Touchez!" cried the multitude. Then the balloon burst and fell to the ground a mass of flames. High above the little Nieuport saucily continued its pranks, as though contemptuous of such easy prey. It may be properly noted at this point that the captive balloons or kite balloons have proved of the greatest value for observations in this war.
Par l'ordre du Senechal de Castelnau, et de l'Echevin de Cahors, servantes fideles du tres vaillant et tres puissant Edouard, Prince de Galles et d'Aquitaine. Ne touchez pas, Ne coutez pas, Ne depechez pas "He took a sorry time in dying," said the man who sat beside him. "He could stretch one toe to the ground and bear him self up, so that I thought he would never have done.
Recalling the Spanish royal personage whom courtiers let burn to death sooner than deviate from the motto, ne touchez pas la Reine, D'Azeglio protested that if he was to risk his head, or totally to lose the king's favour, he would think himself the vilest of mankind if he did not write the words which he had not been permitted to speak.
Do you remember that lovely French poem of Sully Prudhomme's I read you one night 'Le Vase Brisé'? The vase has had a blow. No one knew of it. But the little crack widens and grows. The water ebbs away the flowers die. 'Il est brisé n'y touchez pas! I can see it is just that Mr. Sorell feels about Otto.
She lingered for a week, in great suffering, but bearing all with fortitude and an unflinching determination not to distress those around her by painful complaining. Up to her last hour she preserved consciousness and lucidity. The words, "Ne touchez pas
Citoyenne, n'y touchez pas. Vegetable, animal, or mineral? Four-and-twenty questions might be spent upon it, and you would be none the wiser. Now to be plain, the box contains "the old man's head;" now you know. Cacti sent to me by Sir William Hooker; your mother has not room for more than two, which she kept. Thunderstorm and hail-shower, half-past eleven.
He made a slight detour to point out a German shell which had fallen there without exploding, and made laughing comments upon the harmless, futile character of those poor Germans in front of us. They did their best to kill us, but oh, so feebly! Yet when I took a pace toward the shell he called out, sharply, "Ne touchez pas!"
In conspicuous places of the various apartments, boards are affixed, on which is inscribed the following significant appeal to the uncultivated mind, "Citoyens, ne touchez a rien; mais respectez la Propriete Nationale." Proper persons are stationed here and there to caution such as, through thoughtlessness or ignorance, might not attend to the admonition.
"Ne touchez pas ne touchez pas!" I refrained, somewhat wonderingly, from touching. Madame Brandt explained. "He thinks you would spoil the magnetic influence. It is a superstition of his." "But you are touching." "He believes I have his magnetism whatever that may be," she said, with a smile. "Would you like to see an experiment? Anastasius!" "Carissima."
"Madelon," said Horace, stooping down, and trying to take her hands; "my little Madelon, my poor little child!" She jumped up when she heard his voice, and started away from him. "Ne me touchez pas, je vous le défends," she cried, "ne me touchez pas, je vous déteste vous êtes un cruel un perfide!"
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