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"And my my locataire is shot!" murmured Plon, panic-struck. But the man whose mission was ended, turned round without another word and went out into the lurid darkness. The landlord made a trembling effort to stagger across the passage, and to pluck at Marie's gown. When he spoke, his voice quavered with fright. "Come, come, Madame Didier, go upstairs, and and cry there like a good woman.
Having thus regulated at Rome his own affairs and those of the Church, he returned to his camp, took Pavia, received the submission of all the Lombard dukes and counts, save one only, Aregisius, duke of Beneventum, and entered France again, taking with him as prisoner King Didier, whom he banished to a monastery, first at Liege and then at Corbie, where the dethroned Lombard, say the chroniclers, ended his days in saintly fashion.
Whilst he was incessantly fighting in Germany, the work of policy commenced by his father Pepin in Italy called for his care and his exertions. The new king of the Lombards, Didier, and the new Pope, Adrian I., had entered upon a new war; and Dither was besieging Rome, which was energetically defended by the Pope and its inhabitants.
This monk gives a naïve account of Charlemagne's arrival before Pavia, and of the King of the Lombard's disquietude at his approach. Didier had with him at that time one of Charlemagne's most famous comrades, Ogier the Dane, who fills a prominent place in the romances and epopæias, relating to chivalry, of that age.
Wheeler. Miss Lydia Miss Wheeler. Didier Lucy Mrs. Brett. There, Madam, do not you think we shall do your Rivals some justice? I'm convinced it won't be done better any where out of London. I don't think Mrs. Mattocks can do Julia very well." "Bath, March 9, 1775.
"Madame Didier and her husband have started for Naples; and, to crown our lonesomeness, Raffaello Cellini packed up all his traps, and left us yesterday morning en route for Rome. The weather continues to be delicious; but as you seem to be getting on so well in Paris, in spite of the cold there, we have made up our minds to join you, the more especially as I want to renovate my wardrobe.
Still well, well, you must not suppose that I am blaming you; on the contrary, it might surprise you to hear " M. Plon was edging his chair a little nearer to Madame Didier, and she thought it was time to interrupt his explanation, so she said briskly: "Ah, by the way, what news is there to-day in Le Petit Journal?" "There is the great robbery." "The great robbery! Where?" "In the Rue Vivienne.
By George Sinclair, late Professor of Philosophy in Glasgow. Sir George M'Kenzie, Edinburgh: Sold by P. Anderson, Parliament Square. La Magie et l'Astrologie dans I'Antiquite et au Moyen Age, ou Etude sur les superstitions paiennes qui se sont perpetuees jusqu'a nos jours. Par L.F. Alfred Maury. Troisieme Edition revue et corrigee. Paris: Didier. 1864.
Marie was crying, and M. Plon thought his eloquence had provoked her tears, but she put aside his hand, walked to the commissioner, and dropped on her knees before him. "Monsieur, if you have a wife " "I have not," said the man roughly. "But your mother! If her son " "I have my duty, that is enough," he said in the same tone, "Get up, Madame Didier, and let me know the truth of all this matter.
Didier, as much as MM. Fauvet and Poncelet in that of St. Symphorien." To the character of M. Levasseur the writer bears honourable testimony, as a young man who had devoted time, talents, and a liberal private fortune, to the cause; and whose exertions on this occasion impaired a naturally delicate constitution.
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