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Instead of repeating anything I had taught her, she began in French: "Marie, enfant, quitte l'ouvrage, Voici l'etoille du berger." "Ma mere, un enfant du village Languit captif chez l'etranger; Pris sur mer, loin de sa patrie, Il c'est rendu, mais le dernier." File, file, pauvre Marie, Pour secourir le prisonnier; File, file, pauvre Marie, File, file, pour le prisonnier.
"Il est la, exile et captif, enchaine sur un ecueil. Nouveau Promethee il subit le chatiment de son orgueil! Promethee avait voulu etre Dieu et Createur; il deroba le feu du Ciel pour animer le corps qu'il avait forme.
They tries to prove this Caribou Sam is a hoss-thief, but couldn't fill on the draw, an' so Caribou works free of 'em an' is what they calls "'quitted." "'As soon as ever the marshal takes the hobbles off this Caribou Sam he's been held a captif off some'ers an' is packed into Lido onder gyard to be tried a lot this yore malefactor comes bulgin' into the Sunflower an' declar's for fire-water.
After that, everybody said he might have discovered a worthier object for his affection than the "BALLOON CAPTIF."
Anger gave place to pity at the sight of this victim who had suffered so terrible a reverse of fortune, and the Benedictine chronicler, Jean d'Auton, deplores the sad fate of this unfortunate prince, who, after many golden days of wealth and prosperity, was doomed to end his life in weary and lonely captivity far from house and friends: "Somme, si le pauvre Seigneur captif, de deuil inconsolable avoit le coeur serrè a nul devoit sembler merveilles."
I will see Monsieur le Marquis this afternoon, and immediately afterward " "But, madame, surely," Dan exclaimed, "I am to accompany you?" "Ah! monsieur," she replied with a charming little smile, "for the present you must rest content to be mon captif. We must quite clearly understand each other before well. But you are too impetuous, Monsieur Dan. For the moment I leave you here."
She was known, in briefest space of time, as "the cormorant," as "prime streaky," as "Jumbo," as "the phenomenon" and, by those who understood the French language, as the "BALLON CAPTIF." The "BALLON CAPTIF." . . . How things got about, on Nepenthe! Somehow or other, this odious nickname reached her lover's ears.
It was plain that the bishop had never heard that story about the BALLON CAPTIF. "For my part," he said, "I am beginning to object to this south wind. I never felt it worse than to-day. Phew! Stifling! One can hardly breathe. My shirt is sticking to my back. Suppose we sit down somewhere?" They found a bench, in view of the sea and the volcano.
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