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Updated: June 21, 2025
The smouldering fire of discontent broke into fierce flame on August 25th, 1830, in the city of Brussels, during a performance of the opera "Muette de Portici," when the tenor was singing the inspired words of Massaniello: "Plutôt mourir que rester misérable, Pour un esclave est-il quelque danger? Tombe le joug qui nous accable, Et sous nos coups périsse l'étranger.
"I do not allude to an animal fever, but to the western fever." "Ce pays de l'ouest, est-il bien malsain?" whispered Mademoiselle Viefville. "Apparemment, Mademoiselle, sur plusieurs rapports."
Having a letter of introduction to the Governor, they received every attention. The society was almost wholly French; and many of the inhabitants called out of politeness, or to gratify their curiosity. The French ladies shrugged up their shoulders, and exclaimed, "Est-il possible?" when they heard that the Campbells were about to proceed to such a distant spot and settle upon it.
The party was short-sighted, and saw better with the one put in by Mr Liston than with the one which had been left him. "`Est-il possible? Mais, quel homme extraordinaire! Perhaps you will do me the favour to sit with me, monsieur; and, if I mistake not, you have a request to make of me n'est-ce pas?
"By-the-way, do you know that Geoffrey Cliffe is in Venice?" Madame d'Estrées opened her eyes. "Est-il possible? Oh! but Kitty has forgotten all about him." "Of course," said Harman. "I am told he has been seen with the Ricci." Madame d'Estrées raised her shoulders this time in addition to her eyes. Then her face clouded. "I believe," she said, slowly, "that woman may come here this afternoon."
The fate of an army, can it depend upon the personal good fortune of the General who commands it? Cardinal Mazarin seemed to be of this opinion, since he never failed to ask those who recommended persons to him to head expeditions, "is he lucky?" est-il heureux? Can it be surmised that fortune acts with her favorite sons at the head of armies, as she does at gambling tables?
Why, he once took a manuscript Terence, full of holes and mistakes, in writing to Cardinal Toletus, and told him that it was worth all the gold in the world'; and, to convince his Spanish Eminence, he said that the book was a thousand years' old. 'Est-il possible? replies the Cardinal, 'you don't say so.
Comment va l'oncle de votre ami? Le chat de votre mere, est-il noir?" Austin burst out laughing at her mimicry of the typical conversation in a beginner's grammar, and she joined him. The critical moment had passed.
On my arrival, both our servants were up. My hands and clothes were dyed with blood, and they looked at me with astonishment. I ran hastily upstairs to avoid them, and took the writing-desk, the key of which I knew hung to his watch-chain. Seizing the poker, I split it open, and took out the packet he mentioned. At this moment his servant entered the room. "Et mon maitre, monsieur, ou est-il?"
On demande a un homme qui vouloit vendre un cheval, "Votre cheval est-il peureux?" "Oh, point du tout," repond-il; "il vient de passer plusieurs nuits tout seul dans son ecurie." Dans une querelle entre un pere et son fils, le pere reprochoit a celui-ci son ingratitude.
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