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At this everybody began to laugh, and Umslopogaas, perceiving that he was the object of remark, frowned ferociously, for he had a most lordly dislike of anything like a personal liberty. 'Parbleu! said Alphonse, 'he is angered he makes the grimace. I like not his air. I vanish. And he did with considerable rapidity. Mr Mackenzie joined heartily in the shout of laughter which we indulged in.
It is a rather curious coincidence that, at the time when M. Zola was thus portraying the life of Provence, his great contemporary, bosom friend, and rival for literary fame, the late Alphonse Daudet, should have been producing, under the title of "The Provencal Don Quixote," that unrivalled presentment of the foibles of the French Southerner, with everyone nowadays knows as "Tartarin of Tarascon."
What did it matter to him that Alphonse's weak character had at last led him to crime, and what had he lost? Nothing, for did he not hate his former friend? No one could say it was his fault that Alphonse was ruined he had shared with him honestly, and never harmed him. Then his thoughts turned to Alphonse.
What did they live on then? First of all, on the sunshine, and then by doing a kind of broker's work between passing ships and the natives. They vegetated in fact, and if they did not actually rot in idleness, they owed it to a tall Virginian mulatto, a very intelligent fellow, extraordinarily like Alphonse Karr in appearance, "Governor Roberts," with whom I had several long and interesting talks.
The Baron Humboldt, the celebrated traveller, a member of the Institute and who saw its operation before that body, told Mr. Wheaton, our Minister to Prussia, that my Telegraph was the best of all the plans that had been devised. "I received a call from the administrator-in-chief of all the telegraphs of France, Monsieur Alphonse Foy.
Darwin, thirty years ago, as to lead him to speak of a "law of succession of types," and of the wonderful relationship on the same continent between the dead and the living, has recently received much elucidation from the researches of Gaudry, of Rütimeyer, of Leidy, and of Alphonse Milne-Edwards, taken in connection with the earlier labours of our lamented colleague Falconer; and it has been instructively discussed in the thoughtful and ingenious work of Mr.
By ALPHONSE DAUDET "What can be the matter? What have I done to her?" Claire Fromont very often wondered when she thought of Sidonie. She was entirely ignorant of what had formerly taken place between her friend and Georges at Savigny.
The comments made by his two companions on the song consisting mainly of illustrative anecdote were worthy of the occasion. David sat, however, without flinching, his black eyes hardening, laughing at intervals. Presently the room rose en bloc, and there was a move towards the staircase. 'The manager, M. Edmond, has come, explained Alphonse; 'they are going upstairs to the concert-room.
Which I've never yet done in my life. Zut! Zut!! as our late Count Alphonse might say. And he'll say other remarks when he finds you've gone, Dolly." And Malcourt, who was a mimic, shrugged and raised his arms in Gallic appeal to the gods of wrath, until he mouthed his face into a startling resemblance to that of the bereft nobleman.
What did I care for any of them, except poor Alphonse and I only liked Alphonse because he reminded me of the dead. Do you think I was not a reckless woman when I married Sir Guy? "Do you think I have not been punished and humiliated enough? Heaven forbid, my dear, that your fate should resemble mine! I read your feelings far more plainly than you do yourself.
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