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Updated: June 10, 2025
The fort mentioned as Fort Dauphin was built, as we shall see, on the Illinois, though under another name. La Salle, deceived by Spanish maps, thought that the Mississippi discharged itself into the Bay of St. Henri de Tonty signed his name in the Gallicised, and not in the original Italian form, Tonti. He wore a hand of iron or some other metal, which was usually covered with a glove.
On the Continent, save as remote and curious survivals, three other languages alone held sway German, which reached to Antioch and Genoa and jostled Spanish-English at Gdiz, a Gallicised Russian which met the Indian English in Persia and Kurdistan and the "Pidgin" English in Pekin, and French still clear and brilliant, the language of lucidity, which shared the Mediterranean with the Indian English and German and reached through a negro dialect to the Congo.
Gaston explained. "Of our own species? Tudieu!" said his father, looking up. "Surely it's infinitely fresher and more amusing for me to marry an American. There's a sad want of freshness there's even a provinciality in the way we've Gallicised." "Against Americans I've nothing to say; some of them are the best thing the world contains. That's precisely why one can choose.
Johnson appeared to be prosperous, but slightly Gallicised. "How is Ajax?" he murmured. "Ajax has grown fat. Can't you dine with me?" "It's my turn. We must order a bottle of Léoville at once." "You sent that wine," I exclaimed. There was no note of interrogation in my voice. I knew. "Yes," he said indifferently; "it will be worth drinking in about ten years' time."
His family however had been so completely Gallicised that the affairs of each member of it were the affairs of all the rest, and his father, his sisters and his brothers-in-law had not yet begun sufficiently to regard this scheme as their own for him to feel it substantially his. It was a family in which there was no individual but only a collective property.
On the Continent, save as remote and curious survivals, three other languages alone held sway German, which reached to Antioch and Genoa and jostled Spanish-English at Cadiz; a Gallicised Russian which met the Indian English in Persia and Kurdistan and the "Pidgin" English in Pekin; and French still clear and brilliant, the language of lucidity, which shared the Mediterranean with the Indian English and German and reached through a negro dialect to the Congo.
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