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Everard knitted his mouth to intensify a peculiar subdued form of laughter through the nose, in hopeless ridicule of a Frenchman's notions of an Englishman's occupations presumed across Channel to allow of his breaking loose from shooting engagements at a minute's notice, to rush off to a fetid foreign city notorious for mud and mosquitoes, and commence capering and grimacing, pouring forth a jugful of ready-made extravagances, with 'mon fils! mon cher neveu!
He carried me up once, but the being carried down was so much like being carried down the flue of a chimney, that I waive the whole privilege for the future. What is better, to my mind, is the expected fact of being able to get books at Siena nearly as well as at Brecker's, really; though Dumas fils seems to fill up many of the interstices where you think you have found something.
Here he handed to Alain a memorial on behalf of an afflicted family who had been burnt out of their home, and reduced from comparative ease to absolute want. There was a list appended of some twenty subscribers, the last being the Contessa, fifty francs, and Madame de Maury, five. "Allow me, Marquis," said the Abbe, "to steal from you. Bless you two-fold, mon fils!"
They get help from the police at Bordeaux. They find the firewood trade is a nothing." M. Max shrugged his shoulders. "There are five firms to which the lorries go, and of the five, four " His gesture indicated a despair too deep for words. "To serve them, it is but a blind; so my men think. But the fifth firm, it is that of Raymond Fils, one of the biggest distilleries of Bordeaux.
Dumas fils retired to the country and wrote La Dame aux Camélias a four-act play in eight successive days. But he had previously told the same story in a novel; he knew everything that was to happen in his play; and the mere writing could be done in a single headlong dash. Voltaire's best tragedy, Zaïre, was written in three weeks.
He became Court painter, and left many fine portraits; but, perhaps, as Comte Vasili says, "La meilleure oeuvre de Don José fut son fils, Federico; de même que la meilleure de celui-ci est son fils Raimundo." Raimundo Madrazo and Fortuny the elder, who married Cecilia Madrazo, Raimundo's sister, have always painted in Paris, and have become known to Europe almost as French artists.
Suffice to say that the Bonners, mère, fils and fille, exerted themselves to make the month an unforgetable one to the girl and they succeeded. The usual gaiety, the same old whirl of experiences, came to her that come to any other mortal who is being entertained, fêted and admired. She was a success a pleasure in every way not only to her hosts but to herself.
Suddenly there is a cry that reaches far above the roar of fire and crash of falling timbers: “Mon fils! mon garçon!” and the old man totters and falls backward to earth, still clinging to the lifeless body of his son. All hasten towards him. Hosmer reaches him first.
Bassompierre calls him Saint-Sulliendat, Mém. p. 46. L'Etoile, vol. iii. pp. 353, 354. Bassompierre, Mém. p. 46. Richelieu, La Mère et le Fils, vol. i. p. 326. Louis de Lagon de Merargues was a nobleman of Provence, who claimed to descend from the Princes of Catalonia or Aragon.
Later on, when I apologised to Dumas fils for the way in which I had cut down his play, he answered, "Oh, my dear child, when I write a play I think it is good, when I see it played I think it is stupid, and when any one tells it to me I think it is perfect, as the person always forgets half of it."
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