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From thence they could see Ajaccio all gay and illuminated, the port with its little fleet, and the streets crowded with people, as if it were a fete-day. Hardly had the crowd set eyes on Murat before a universal cry arose, "Long live Joachim, brother of Napoleon! Long live the King of Naples!" Murat bowed, and the shouts were redoubled, and the garrison band played the national airs.
All I say to you, Miss Lucy Snowe, is that you ought to treat Professor Paul Emanuel decently." I could not, and did not contradict such a sentiment. "Tell me," he pursued, "when it is your fete-day, and I will not grudge a few centimes for a small offering." "You will be like me, Monsieur: this cost more than a few centimes, and I did not grudge its price."
Among other things, she soon announced a grand celebration of the Princess Catharine's fête-day, to be held at the Monastery of the Trinity, and invited Couvansky to attend it. Couvansky joyfully accepted this invitation, supposing that the occasion would afford him an admirable opportunity to advance his views in respect to his son.
"I did it because it is so great a pleasure to me to spend an entire evening with you, even at another's house. Remember you have so many official dinners, banquets and invitations that you attend alone. When the minister's wife is invited with him, it is a fête-day for the poor, little forsaken thing. I do not have much of you, it is true, but I see you, I hear you talking and I am happy.
Among the great again was seen the ever-favored yet not "gai" Talleyrand. Of the incident Cooper noted: "It is etiquette for the kings of France to dine in public on January 14 and on the monarch's fête-day." Wishing to see this ceremony, Mr. and Mrs. Cooper were sent the better of the two permissions granted for the occasion.
It was the national fête-day of France, but the attack was made on the British front from Contalmaison to Trônes wood. The day was one of the most successful in the four and a half months' battle, and the dash of the British troops carried them as far as all their objectives.
"Upon my word it's a pretty sight," said the old lady, in her deep voice, when she was seated, and looked round on the bright scene with its dark-green background; "and it's the last fete-day I'm likely to see, unless you make haste and get married, Arthur. But take care you get a charming bride, else I would rather die without seeing her."
As long as Timar lived, Herr Katschuka had invariably received invitations to the Sunday receptions, which he as regularly answered by depositing his card at the door: he never came to the parties. This year the fête-day party had been omitted, as the faithful Susanna was in mourning.
Her wrath was hot, and her heart heavy within her. She had given up her whole fete-day to wait on the anguish and to soothe the solitude of his friend lying dying there; and her reward had been to hear him speak of this aristocrat's donations, that cost her nothing but the trouble of a few words of command to her household, as though they were the saintly charities of some angel from heaven!
"I meant only to thank you for your goodness to Ramon in my absence." Cigarette shrugged her shoulders. "There was no goodness, and there need be no thanks. Ask Pere Matou how often I have sat with him hours through." "But on a fete-day! And you who love pleasure, and grace it so well " "Ouf! I have had so much of it," said the little one contemptuously. "It is so tame to me.
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