Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 29, 2025
"But the madness of the governor ought not to keep us from eating." "It should have the opposite effect." "We can talk just as well with our mouths full." "A thousand times better," said the office-boy. Chalamel was carving the turkey, and he said to the principal clerk: "What reason have you for thinking that the governor is crazy?"
"'Which obscured his thoughts! Just as if it were written! Bravo, head clerk; we will make a melodrama together: "'Who speaks so well, and so polite, A melodrama ought to write." "Do hold your tongue, Chalamel. I know nothing about it; but what is sure is, that, when he recovered his Senses, it was another song.
"Poor Germain would be much astonished if any one should say to him, 'Only fancy, my boy, the governor gives us forty sous for our breakfast; 'Pshaw! it is impossible, he would say. 'It is so possible that he has announced it to me, Chalamel, in my own person. 'You are jesting. 'I jest!
"I demand the head of Chalamel!" "Do not listen to him; you know, when once he is in the way of saying stupid things, there is no end to it." "What is certain is, that this intruder has a bad face, and does not leave M. Ferrand for a moment." "He is always with him in his cabinet; they eat together; one does not move without the other." "I think I have seen the man before." "I think not."
I tell you, gentlemen, that it is very singular. It was upside down." "Which was upside down? the deed or the governor? It is singular, as you say. What the devil was he doing in that position? I should think it would have given him the apoplexy, unless his habits, as you say, have changed very suddenly." "How wearisome you are, Chalamel!
"Your word and honor that you won't mention it?" "On the heads of our children, we give it." "And besides, let us remember what the great king Louis XIV. majestically said to the Doge of Venice before his assembled court: "'When a secret's told a clerk, Its exposure he'll not burk!" "Good! there is Chalamel with his proverbs!" "I demand the head of Chalamel!"
We shall have to chain him up, or he will carry off the Sabines from the streets; for, as said the Swan of Cambray in his Treatise on Education for the Dauphin, "'Of Gutter-jumper have a care, Who assaults the lovely fair." "I demand the head of Chalamel!" "M. Chalamel, you said a black robe, I thought." "It is the cure, goose! Let him be an example for you." "The cure of the parish?
"Oh! a carriage!" said Chalamel, leaning over toward the window. "Nothing but a hackney-coach." "And who gets out?" "Stop a moment! Oh! a black-gown!" "A woman! a woman! Oh! let us see." "This gutter-jumper is indecently sensitive at his age; he only thinks of women.
"Without being uncivil, my lord, I must say that you have detained us from breakfast for a long time," said Chalamel. "You must look out, for the next time our appetites won't be under such good control." "It is not my fault, I assure you; I was more impatient than you are the governor must be mad!" "That's what I have been saying."
"And he would be most stupendously in the wrong not to bury himself in voluptuousness, and not to plunge into the delights of Golconda, if he has the means; for, as the misty Ossian says, in the grotto of Fingal, "'All-Ariel is it, yet not-arial, too, That he should still be right, Who roseate tapestry has in open view, And of his gold makes light." "I demand the head of Chalamel!"
Word Of The Day
Others Looking