brulons

Updated: May 5, 2025

His end was calm and gay, like his life, though he suffered terribly, and he said so extraordinary a life could not finish in a common way. To a lady who had set her ruffle on fire, and scorched her arm about the same time, he said, "Madame, nous brulons du même feu."

Horace Walpole - Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II