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What's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms? and, descending an avenue of estimable peres de famille, turned the corner of an elegant sepulchre, to which only the most fashionable ghosts could possibly have the entry. Dear, dear, what heart-burnings there must be among the more snobbish shadows of Montparnasse!
And if I am not an excellent husband to the demoiselle, it will be her own fault. I have sown my wild oats. Je suis bon prince, when I have things a little my own way. It is my hope and my intention, and certainly it will be my interest, to become digne epoux et irreprochable pere de famille. I speak lightly, 't is my way. I mean seriously.
'Vous etes les gens qu'il faut pour les Kanaques; vous etes doux, vous et votre famille; vous seriez obeis dans toutes les iles. We had been civil; not always that, my conscience told me, and never anything beyond; and all this to-do is a measure, not of our considerateness, but of the want of it in others.
* "Chacun se concentre aujourdhui dans sa famille et calcule ses resources." "The attention of every one now is confined to his family, and to the calculation of his resources." Discours de Lindet. "Accable du soin d'etre, et du travail de vivre." "Overwhelmed with the care of existence, and the labour of living." St. Lambert
Madame de Campan, ch. ix.; "Marie Antoinette, Louis XII., et la Famille Royale," p. 238. "Un soleil d'été" Weber, i., p. 53. La Muette derived its name from les mues of the deer who were reared there.
It is astonishing, now I come to think of it, how skilfully Brigadier-General Mrs. Pettitoes deployed those daughters of hers; how vigorously Mrs. Tabby led on her forlorn hope; and how unweariedly, Murat-like, Mrs. De Famille charged at the head of her cavalry. They deserve to be made Marshals of France, all of them.
I shall lodge you all quietly in the hotel, and you may wait there, while I go down with Reeves, and receive them like a rational being." "Really, Cecil, that's too bad. He let me come on board!" "Do you think I should have brought you here if I had thought you meant to make yourself ridiculous?" "It is of no use, Sydney," said Babie; "there's no dealing with the stern and staid pere de famille.
See ante, iii. 186. Dryden employed his mornings in writing; dined en famille; and then went to Wills's; only he came home earlier a'nights' Mr.
This class of the comic, moreover, may attain a special profundity of its own when it discloses not merely a professional practice, but a fault in character. Recall to mind the scenes in the Faux Bonshommes and the Famille Benoiton, where marriage is dealt with as a business affair, and matters of sentiment are set down in strictly commercial language.
Biddy ventured to observe that she herself had studied modelling a little and that she could understand how any artist would think Miss Rooth a splendid subject. If indeed she could attempt her head, that would be a chance indeed. "Thank you," said Miriam with a laugh as of high comedy. "I think I had rather not passer par toute la famille!"
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