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All the unknown is as something wonderful. Sarasate. A famous Spanish violinist. Sleuth hound. Detective. The Sholto murder and the Agra treasure. This refers to another Sherlock Holmes story, The Sign of Four, which you may enjoy reading. Napoleons. French gold coins worth 20 francs each. Partie carrée. A party of four. L'homme c'est rien l'oeuvre c'est tout.
La table étoit carrée. La coutume est qu'on n'y apporte qu'un plat
The introduction of the cook, to quote an old novelist, 'had formed no part of his profligate scheme of pleasure. To elope from a hospitable roof, with a married lady, accompanied by her maid, might be an act not without precedent. But that a cook should come to form une partie carree, on such an occasion, that a lover should be squeezed with three women in a brougham, was a trying novelty.
Dallam made no attempt to bring about this most desirable meeting. When Honora and Howard went to town to dine with the Dallams, it was always at a restaurant, a 'partie carree'. Lily Dallam thought it dull to dine at home, and they went to the theatre afterwards invariably a musical comedy.
Thus from the ill-assorted trio was formed a comfortable partie carrée, for Poussette seemed careless as to which lady he attended and he still bore the cornelian ring upon his finger.
Before the days of Secession, when the Northern traveller in Virginia, after traversing for weary leagues its miry ways, its desolate fields, and its flowery forests, rode at last into its metropolis, now slowly expanded into a city of twenty-eight thousand inhabitants, he was sure to be guided erelong to visit its stately Capitol, modelled by Jefferson, when French minister, from the Maison Carree.
Somewhat should be decayed for effect's sake; and those parts only left which are strikingly beautiful, or of a leading and important nature. The Arena, which we next visited, is perhaps more consonant to this standard than the Maison Carrée.
A design was once formed of removing the Maison Carrée to Versailles. Colbert was the originator of this barbarous project, which, however, was fortunately abandoned from the fear of impairing, if not destroying, the beauty of the building.
It seemed as if each knight bestowed upon the chosen one all the attentions he had hitherto given to both; and whether they went boating, sketching, or strolling upon the sands, they were the very picture of a partie carrée of lovers. Naturally enough, as the young men became more in earnest, with the reticence common to my sex they spoke less frequently and freely on the subject.
She slowly faded away, poor thing; and about the time David was returning from a triumphant Christmas and New Year at Pontystrad the Curate and his young wife had made a most delightful partie carrée and David had kissed the very slightly protesting Bridget under the native mistletoe Mrs.
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