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Updated: May 24, 2025
As we were going out, the landlady, getting on towards eighty, with a bookish nose, pale blue eyes and a Giovanni Bellini's Loredano Loredani kind of expression, came up to us and said, in sweetly apologetic accents: "Avez-vous donc dejeune a peu pres selon vos idees, Messieurs?"
Meantime I padded lightly through the village, at first calling on the dogs by English names, but later using such wisps as I had of French. "Aucassin, mon pauvre chien. Voici, Tintagiles, alors donc mon cherie. Je suis votre ami," but with little effect. But the dogs that one meets in the Canadian woods are of the fiercest breed. They border on the wolf.
"Some fine morning or evening she will go off with a young man; probably with a young American." "Allons donc!" said I, with disgust. "That will be quite America enough," pursued my cynical hostess. "I have kept a boarding-house for forty years. I have seen that type." "Have such things as that happened chez vous?" I asked. "Everything has happened chez moi.
«Ces montagnes ne sont pas telles que V.M. pourroit se les figurer naturellement; il faut y être monté pour s'en former une juste idée. Ce sont des montagnes sur d'autres montagnes. De près on ne voit que les parties inférieures; de loin tout se confond; il faut donc être arrivé sur une des premières terrasses pour voir les secondes; sur celles-ci pour les troisièmes; et ainsi de suite.
This is Turgot's opinion on the controversy (Letter to Caillard, Oeuv., ii. 827): "Tous avez donc vu Jean-Jacques; la musique est un excellent passe-port auprès de lui. Quant
'Je ne suis pas un blooming idiot. C'est impossible. Allez-vous donc. 'Ah! I said, 'you are English. I beg your pardon. I suppose you did not understand. I wish you to be so good as to take this note to the Caffè d' Italia for Mr. Arthur Clyde. I will give you 'I am not anybody's messenger, the man answered, and walked away again.
Arkady Pavlitch speaks in a soft, agreeable voice, with emphasis and, as it were, with satisfaction; he brings out each word through his handsome perfumed moustaches; he uses a good many French expressions too, such as: Mais c'est impayable! Mais comment donc? and so so.
Why didn't they move? There was the National Guard keeping on presenting arms, the little drummers going on rub-dub-dub rub-dub-dub in the same steady, slow way, and the Procession never moved an inch. There was evidently, to use an elegant phrase, a hitch somewhere. Fat priest "Taisez-vous." Little drummer Rub-dub-dub rub-dub-dub rub-dub-dub, &c. Drum-major "Qu'est-ce donc?"
'It is I who have given you the greatest gift, I said. 'I have given you a regret and an illusion. Vous avez donc tout eu. That night he killed himself." "And you, Paula, did you feel a murderess?" "No, a saviour." She was dressed in pale lilac the coolest lilac in the world. It rippled round her like loving caressing waves. "What is your dress called, Paula?" "Oasis," she said.
"By this time to-morrow I shall expect to receive from you, here, the charge of Mademoiselle de La Vauvraye. A demain, donc, Monsieur le Seneschal." And with another bow the man from Paris drew himself erect, turned on his heel, and went jingling and creaking from the room.
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