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"Oh! so you've been in Cuba, have you, my dear? Well, Cuba's a very pretty country, and you're a very pretty woman." The woman smiled, showing rows of splendid teeth. "Señor mus' be a gran' nobile a generale." Russell smiled a lofty smile, and laid his hand patronizingly, yet tenderly, upon the woman's shoulder. "You are a very sensible woman," said he, "and as pretty as you are sensible.
Her thoughts and the gorgeous sunshine and her youth and health put her in a steadily less cheerless mood as by a roundabout way she sought the shop of the jeweler who sold the general the gold bag she had selected. The proprietor himself was in the front part of the shop and received "Madame la Generale" with all the honors of her husband's wealth.
They had hardly got indoors when the 'generale' was sounded: resisting all entreaties, Cavalier sprang to the door, but was detained by Berlie, who said that the first thing he ought to do was to write M. de Villars an account of what had happened, who would then take measures to put things straight.
The crude Chinese method of mining had greatly impaired the workings and they had to be entirely reconstructed. Among the engineers employed was an alert, smooth-faced, keen-minded young American named Herbert Hoover. Upon his return to Brussels Francqui allied himself with Colonel Thys, who was head of the Banque d'Outremer, the rival of the Société Generale.
But I keep a loaded pistol in my drawer." Madame la Générale D'Hubert lifted up her hands in horror after perusing that letter. "You see? He won't be reconciled," said her husband. "We must take care that he never, by any chance, learns where the money he lives on comes from. It would be simply appalling." "You are a brave homme, Armand," said Madame la Générale appreciatively.
Never fear distressing me. I have agreed with my family not to seem pre-informed, in order not to compromise you." On the 11th December, at five o'clock in the morning, the prisoners heard the generale beaten throughout Paris, and cavalry and cannon entered the Temple gardens. At nine the King and the Dauphin went as usual to breakfast with the Queen.
The Belgian Government applies to the Société Generale whenever any national financial enterprise is to be inaugurated and counts upon it to take the initial steps. Thus it became the backbone of Leopold's ramified projects and it was natural that he should invoke its assistance in the organization of the Forminiere.
Or, as it has been expressed, "human qualities raised to their highest power." The same statement holds good as regards the "Temptations of Saint Anthony" and other analogous subjects that have often attracted painters. R. Dubois, Leçons de physiologie générale et comparée, p. 286. Von Baer, in James, Psychology, I, 639. Arréat, Mémoire et Imagination, p. 118.
Somewhat later he assisted in compiling the 'Biographie Generale' of Firmin Didot, and was also a contributor to some reviews.
By degrees they banded themselves into a society, which, as its end was the knowledge of all things knowable, called itself a "Studium Generale;" and when it had grown into a recognised corporation, acquired the name of "Universitas Studii Generalis," which, mark you, means not a "Useful Knowledge Society," but a "Knowledge-of-things-in-general Society."
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