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I thus sum up, pour ainsi dire, in my official costume all the birds of the island, as Tu-Kila-Kila, the very high god, sums up, in his quaint and curious dress, the land and the sea, the trees and the stones, earth and air, and fire and water." Familiarity with danger begets at last a certain callous indifference.
With one of the daily reports sent to the First Consul he received the following quatrain, which made him laugh heartily: "Vaisseaux lestes, tete sans lest, Ainsi part l'Amiral Gantheaume; Il s'en va de Brest a Bertheaume, Et revient de Bertheaume a Brest!"
Numéro Un. Ainsi les Chauffeurs se vengent. They had carried her to the house, and given her restoratives till she had recovered the feeble use of her speech. Life was ebbing away fast, and they had no resource but to carry her to the nearest hospital, where, of course, the fact of her sex was made known.
"Ainsi soit-il Amen," murmured the penitent, and then, in the soft accents of the Creole patois, continued: "'I confess to Almighty God, to the blessed Mary, ever Virgin, to blessed Michael the Archangel, to blessed John the Baptist, to the holy Apostles Peter and Paul, and to all the saints, that I have sinned exceedingly in thought, word, and deed, through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault. I confessed on Saturday, three weeks ago, and received absolution, and I have performed the penance enjoined.
It represented the Cardinal-Generalissimo wearing a casque surrounded by laurels. Above it was inscribed: "Grand Duc: c'est justement que la France t'honore; Ainsi que le dieu Mars dans Paris on t'adore." These fine phrases did not persuade the people that they were happy.
This dagger was aimed straight at her heart. Then putting on his spectacles, he read the writing on the bloody paper, dimmed and horribly obscured as it was: NUMÉRO UN. Ainsi les Chauffeurs se vengent. 'Let us go! said I to Amante. 'Oh, let us leave this horrible place! 'Wait a little, said she. 'Only a few minutes more. It will be better.
Ainsi le degre de ressemblance est le fond; la reproduction en est seulement la manifestation et la mesure, et il est logique de placer la cause au-dessus de l'effet." We are not yet convinced. We still hold that genealogical connection, rather than mutual resemblance, is the fundamental thing first on the ground of fact, and then from the philosophy of the case.
Cette immense contrée dont les habitans, en divers temps et sous différens noms, ont peuplé, conquis, ou ravagé la très-grande partie de l'Europe et de l'Asie, se trouvoit pour ainsi dire tout entière en armes.
Il parcourait ainsi la Galilée au milieu d'une fête perpétuelle. Il se servait d'une mule, monture en Orient si bonne et si sûre, et dont le grand oeil noir, ombragé de longs cils, a beaucoup de douceur. Ses disciples déployarent quelquefois autour de lui une pompe rustique, dont leurs vêtements, tenant lieu de tapis, faisaient les frais. Ils les mettaient sur la mule qui le portait, ou les étendaient
And from out all their mouths, vaguely stammered in every language, came the dismal utterances of the catacombs. "Ainsi soit-il!" "Mea culpa!" "Asi sea!" "Aro raï!" "Amen!" It was as though the sombre voices of Babel were scattered through the shadows as Heaven uttered its awful refusal to hear them.
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