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Hence you will never hear a French or half-breed resident of the country mention an Indian in any other style. "Such a person is a 'Court-oreille." "Is that woman a 'Winnebago'?" "No, she is a 'Folle Avoine." In this manner a stranger is somewhat puzzled at first to classify the acquaintances he forms.
Reading the play is to miss half its pleasure; so you must take my word in the matter unless you have been lucky enough to see it yourself, in which case ten to one you will agree with me that one such play is worth a kettleful of boiled-over drama like Le Voleur, Le Secret, Samson, La Vierge Folle, et cetera, et cetera.
I'm goin' wait yair tell Cheri wake up." La Folle seated herself upon the topmost step of the veranda. A look of wonder and deep content crept into her face as she watched for the first time the sun rise upon the new, the beautiful world beyond the bayou. When the war began, there stood on Cote Joyeuse an imposing mansion of red brick, shaped like the Pantheon.
Genuine and simulated indignation at the tone of the ultimatum was the order of the day, and the universal conclusion arrived at was: L'Autriche est devenue folle. Men and women with whom I had been on a perfectly friendly footing for the last year suddenly became bitter enemies. Everywhere I noticed a mixture of indignation and growing eagerness to realise at last their heart's dearest wish.
She rose with the fortunes of the Wessex kingdom until, in the time of Egbert, she appears as the capital of the new kingdom of England which is so named, and for the first time in her witan. The com kyng Egbryth Ant wyth batyle ant fyht Made al Englond yhol Falle to ys oune dol; Ant sethe he reignede her Ahte ant tuenti folle yer: At Wynchestre lyggeth ys bon, Buried in a marble-ston.
And an old proverb which he had repeated one evening, flashed through my mind: "Folle est la brebis qui au loup se confesse." "Silly is the sheep who to the wolf herself confesses," I had translated it, with that painful literalness characteristic of the beginner. Well, I had been the sheep, and silly enough, Heaven knows!
We are upon une folle enterprise a chase of the wild goose." "You do not know my system if you think that," remarked Dawson, frowning. "And if I do not, of whom is the fault?" inquired Froissart blandly; "for, my faith, you never tell what you would be doing." "A secret," said Dawson sententiously, "is a secret when known to one only. If two know of it there is grave danger.
There were five minutes when I sat there and Viola crouched on the floor beside me with her face hidden on my knees and her hands grabbing me tighter and tighter. And the door opened and I saw two nuns looking in. I heard one say to another, "C'est sa pauvre femme qui devient folle." And the door closed on us. "All that fuss about a hand!"
Nous verrons. Je te dis qu'elle est amoureuse de Bruce. 'He is very devoted to her, I know, said Edith, 'and I daresay he's a little in love with her in a way. But she 'C'est tout le contraire, chere. Lui, c'est moins; il est flatte. Il la trouve une femme intelligente, he laughed. 'Mais elle! Tu est folle de ne pas voir ca, Edith. Enfin! Si ca l'amuse?
The French servants, amazed at these activities, thought she was very queer. Once when she was on a step-ladder, with a hammer in her hand, putting up some pictures, she heard some one whisper outside: "Elle est folle." As the two servants came in she cried out indignantly, waving the hammer for emphasis, "Pas folle!
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