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As the door was thrown open Jack woke, and instantly divining the cause of the intrusion, he snatched up the knife near his pillow and sprang like a cat out of his bed; and then began a strange and bloody fight, one man, stark naked, with a short-bladed knife in his hand, against seven men with their long facons, in a small pitch-dark room.
"You can't imagine, of course, dear, because you do not know him well enough, but he has ways and façons of coaxing. He will do the most outrageous things, and make me very angry, and then he will come and put his head in my lap like a child, and kiss my hands, and call me 'Tantine, and, old woman as I am, I cannot resist him. And if one is unhappy or ill, no one can be more tender and devoted."
Whatever may be its defects, it unquestionably exemplifies the character of the nation, so faithfully pourtrayed by Beaumarchais, in the following lines of the vaudeville which concludes the Mariage de Figaro: "Si l'on opprime, il peste, il crie, Il s'agite en cent facons, Tout finit par des chansons." bis. Paris, February 17, 1802.
I set about my task in the following manner: The text ran: "Les procedes de cet homme m'outragent et me deseparent, je dois penser a me debarrasser." For this I substituted: "Cet homme a des facons qui m'offensent et me desolent, il faut que je m'en defasse;" and so on throughout the piece. When I had finished I slept for three hours, and then rose and dressed.
I set about my task in the following manner: The text ran: "Les procedes de cet homme m'outragent et me deseparent, je dois penser a me debarrasser." For this I substituted: "Cet homme a des facons qui m'offensent et me desolent, il faut que je m'en defasse;" and so on throughout the piece. When I had finished I slept for three hours, and then rose and dressed.
"Toutes les propriétés que nous trouvons en la chose qui pense ne sont que des façons différentes de penser." Ibid. 96.
"Je leur mis moy-mesme la hache a la main en chantant la chanson de guerre pour m'accommoder a leurs facons de faire." Frontenac au Ministre, 9 et 12 Nov., 1690. "Monsieur de Frontenac commenca la Chanson de guerre, la Hache a la main, les principaux Chefs des Francois se joignant a luy avec de pareilles armes, la chanterent ensemble.
"Point de façons, gentlemen," said I, in a whisper. "Get to your horses and away! Now's your time. Good-by!" A warm grasp of the hand from each was the only reply, and I turned once more to my discomforted friends the Guerillas. "There, Mike, let the poor devil rise. I confess appearances were strong against me just now."
Both were façons de parler, and the word "provisional" saved them from ridicule they would otherwise have deserved. I remember speaking to a prominent Sinn Feiner only a couple of days before the revolt with a view to writing an article on the Volunteers, and this is what he said: "It would be very difficult for anyone to write anything just at present, for things are trembling in the balance.
"'Madame, I said in my turn, 'Your Majesty always will know where her true friends are. "And I kissed her hand. "Evohé, que les déesses Out de drôles de façons Pour enjôler, pour enjôler, pour enjôler les gaâarçons! "I returned to my home in the Rue de Lille. On the way I encountered the rabble going from the Corps Législatif to the Hotel de Ville. My mind was made up.
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