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With all its desagremens, I can't help laughing at the adventure, and I am heartily glad to have had the opportunity of displaying old Jackson's science upon those wretched gens-d'arme. "Your, truly, "G.L." This, certainly, thought I, improves my position.
The confusion now became considerable, and it was apparent, that the whole had been a pre-concerted scheme. Several persons, leaping upon the table, attempted to extinguish the great lustre of the salon, in which bold attempt, they were most spiritedly resisted by some of the other players and the gens-d'arme, who had by this time arrived in force.
The confusion now became considerable, and it was apparent, that the whole had been a pre-concerted scheme. Several persons, leaping upon the table, attempted to extinguish the great lustre of the salon, in which bold attempt, they were most spiritedly resisted by some of the other players and the gens-d'arme, who had by this time arrived in force.
With all its desagremens, I can't help laughing at the adventure, and I am heartily glad to have had the opportunity of displaying old Jackson's science upon those wretched gens-d'arme. "Your, truly, "G.L." This, certainly, thought I, improves my position.
The Leipziger Street also belongs to the finest, but does not run into this promenade. The Gens-d'arme Square is distinguished by the French and German churches, at least by their exterior, by their high domes, columns, and porticoes. The interiors are small and insignificant.
He did not know that only upon grand, solemn, world-wide occasions, such as a king's birthday or a ball at the Hotel de Ville, was such music on the card. When he flung the door to, it had closed with a spring lock, and for the last quarter of an hour three gens-d'arme, commanded by the sacristan of the tower, had been thundering thereat.
Fortunately, at this after-dinner hour few people were about, but some of those whom they met stared at them, and one called: "Do you take him to the police-station? Shall I summon the gens-d'arme?" "No, no," replied the Pasteur, "he goes to keep an assignation, and is in a hurry." "Then why does he take you with him?
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