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Apropos of Napoleon's lack of delicacy, it is said that once in the Tuileries he significantly addressed one of his court ladies, not renowned for purity, with the words, "You are fond of men, I understand." "Yes; when they are polite," was the rejoinder. At Erfurt Talleyrand gave the same explanation of his master's vagaries.
The notary was careful not to be the first to mention the land speculation; his part was to deal the last blow. "After wills come marriage contracts," said Birotteau. "Such is life. Apropos, when do we marry the Madeleine? Hey! hey! papa Roguin," he added, tapping the notary on the stomach. Among men the most chaste of bourgeois have the ambition to appear rakish.
The occasion for an explanation arrived in due time. On a fine April morning the countess accepted Nathan's arm for a walk through the sequestered path of the Bois de Boulogne. She intended to make him one of those pretty little quarrels apropos of nothing, which women are so fond of exciting.
Contrary to the advice of his generals, especially the succinct advice of his often unheeded mentor Talleyrand, to completely disintegrate Prussia, Napoleon through his fondness for pretty women let himself be tricked by Louise of Prussia. The interesting historical story of this incident may be apropos here, showing how the world's history can be changed through a kiss.
"Well, of all men!" she cried gayly, her dark eyes smiling a most kindly welcome. "And Edith and I were speaking about you only yesterday. That is, I was, for really I do not recall now that Edith made any remark apropos of the subject. You have no idea, Captain Wayne, what a hero I have made you out to be.
I hope you like Terence. Can't you lug a scrap from him now and then, apropos, into your letters? It will please Your affectionate papa, New-York, 5th January, 1795. You see me safe arrived in New-York. I have passed but one hour at Richmond Hill. It seems solitary and undesirable without you. They are all well, and much, very much disappointed that you did not come with me. Pray write to Mrs.
Nothing is more thoroughly Japanese than such digressions, made without the slightest apropos. Moreover, if I roused my past memories, it was the better to force myself to notice the difference between that day of July last year, so peacefully spent amid surroundings familiar to me from my earliest infancy, and my present animated life passed in the midst of such a novel world.
Our guide book says that a clergyman of Yevay, on this glacier, fell into a crevasse several hundred feet deep, and was killed; so I was glad enough when C. came off safe. He ought to have a bell on his neck, as the cows do here; and apropos to this, we leave the glacier, and ride up into a land of pastures. Here we see a hundred cows grazing in the field the field all yellow with buttercups.
But apropos of what," Maria went on, "did the question come up?" "Well, of his asking me what it is I gain." She had a pause. "Then as I've asked you too it settles my case. Oh you HAVE," she repeated, "treasures of imagination." But he had been for an instant thinking away from this, and he came up in another place. "And yet Mrs.
Nothing can be done till after the confinement of Frau Milde. APROPOS, what do you think of Meffert, the tenor? Would he be any good to us, and how old is he? Write to me about this. You accuse me in your last letter of rarely giving you an answer. This alludes, I presume, to two things: Berlin and Dresden. Alas! alas!
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