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"Because," replied the little man imperturbably, "this book is her patent of nobility, her Almanach de Gotha, in a sense, do you understand? Because it established her prodigious genealogy: because she is...." "Because she is?" repeated Morhange. "Because she is the grand daughter of Neptune, the last descendant of the Atlantides." M. Le Mesge looked at Morhange triumphantly.
The ladies retired to enjoy each other's society in the first happy moments of meeting: the Reverend Doctor Gaster sat by the library fire, in profound meditation over a volume of the "Almanach des Gourmands:" Mr Panscope sat in the opposite corner with a volume of Rees' Cyclopaedia: Mr Cranium was busy upstairs: Mr Chromatic retreated to the music-room, where he fiddled through a book of solos before the ringing of the first dinner bell.
The poet Gleim is in town, and will read his late 'Muse Almanach. May I not expect both of you?" They joyfully consented, gazing after the merry society as it drove away. "This is a good bite for the poisonous tongues of the honorable," cried the duke.
Besides, one can find her address in the 'Almanach Bottin', for at the present day, there are queens who have their address in Bottin between an attorney and a druggist; it is only the kings of France who no longer live in France.
How hard it must have hit him!" "M, D, and a princely crown," he reflected. "I wish I had an Almanach de Gotha." "Who was it said of some one that he dearly loved a lord?" Maria Dolores, her chin in the air, asked of Frau Brandt. "I do not know," Frau Brandt replied, knitting. "Well, at least, you know whether it would be possible for a man and wife to live luxuriously on sixpence a week.
Some one had said about him that he was the only edition of the Almanach de Gotha that included the United States. He somewhat resembled a golden seal emerging from a cold bath, and from time to time screwed an eyeglass into his eye and made a careful survey of Mrs. Grenfell's guests. "By George!" he exclaimed. "Isn't that Hugh Chiltern?" Honora started, and followed the direction of Mr.
To this, after a look at me, she assented, adding that she had the good news from the office of The American Almanach de Gotha, Union Square, New York; and she recommended that publication to me.
"If you will consult a recent admirable compilation, entitled The American Almanach de Gotha, you will find that Henry the Seventh " "Aunt, I am so much relieved! For I think that I might have hesitated to trace it back had you said well Charles the Second, for example, or Elizabeth." At this point I should have been wise to notice my Aunt's eye; but I did not, and I continued imprudently:
Who but one of mine own countrywomen would trust me so wholly and accept me so frankly for what I am, an American gentleman?" "Softly!" she warned. "You will dig a pit for your vanity." "No. I am an American gentleman, and I am proud of it; though this statement in your ears may have a school-boy ring." "A nobility in this country? Impossible!" "Not the kind you find in the Almanach de Gotha.
Madame Romain, however, lived well up to her reputation as being "incontestablement la plus jolie femme de Paris." By 1824 the fame of the establishment had begun to wane and in 1826 it expired, though the "Almanach des Gourmands" of the latter year said that the proprietor was the Véry of limonadiers, that his ices were superb, his salons magnificent and his prices exorbitant.
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