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Updated: June 24, 2025
It meant nothing to Tarzan, of course, for he could not tell one language from another, so when he pointed to the word man which he had printed upon a piece of bark he learned from D'Arnot that it was pronounced HOMME, and in the same way he was taught to pronounce ape, SINGE and tree, ARBRE.
We would require some one to carry our purchase, and each of the bright-eyed, short-cropped Jeans and Pierres was eager to offer himself. But our selection was already made. A slender boy in a béret and black pinafore, who had been our earliest spectator, was singled out and entrusted with the conveyance of the arbre de Noël to our hotel.
And if a woman is not constant by nature, why should Jean de Meun, in The Romance of the Rose, devise so many tricks to deceive her, seeing that it is not necessary to make a great assault upon a feeble place? Then she deftly turns the tables on the other sex, reminding each that he is the son of his mother, and that Se mauvaise est il ne peut valor rien, Car nul bon fruit de mal arbre ne vient.
Notwithstanding the clamours of the Parisian public, who, from long habit, considered that they had a sort of prescriptive right to this favourite promenade, the axe was laid to the celebrated arbre de Cracovie and other venerable trees, and their stately heads were soon levelled to the ground.
Blessed be our Lady, who saved our country from our enemies, and will do so again, if we do not by our wickedness lose her favor! But the arbre sec the dry tree still stands upon the Point de Levis, where the Boston fleet took refuge before beating their retreat down the river again, and you know the old prophecy: that while that tree stands, the English shall never prevail against Quebec!"
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