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When I wanted to publish my little French compositions Dors, mon enfant, and the music to Hugo's Attente and Ronsard's Mignonne Lewald not only sent me a small fee the first I had ever received for a composition but commissioned some long articles on my Paris impressions, which he begged me to write as entertainingly as possible.
Sebastian; and when she met you at my brother Hugo's, it was a preconcerted arrangement; she asked to sit next you, and meant to induce you to use your influence on her behalf with the Professor. She was dying to get there." "It is very odd," I mused. "But there! women are inexplicable!" "And Hilda is in that matter the very quintessence of woman.
Hernani, and all of Victor Hugo's subsequent dramas, dealt, however, with distant times and lands; and it was left to another great romantic, Alexander Dumas père, to be the first to give the modern theme a modern setting.
It must have been on the day following Victor Hugo's arrival that I momentarily quitted Paris for reasons in which my youthful but precocious heart was deeply concerned.
He allowed her two hundred a year for her personal expenses and considered that Hugo Tancred should manage the running of his own house out of his quite comfortable salary. He had, of course, no smallest inkling of Hugo's debts or gambling propensities.
She wrapped a borrowed knitted scarf about her neck and put on Hugo's woolen tuque, after which she stepped out. There was a wondrous brilliancy over the world. On trees hung icicles that took on the appearance of gems. The cold air made her breathe so deeply that she felt amazingly strong and well.
Receive a visit from the United States Consul-General and Mr. Wickham Hoffman. Julie* writes me from Guernsey that the acorn I planted on July 14 has sprouted. The oak of the United States of Europe issued from the ground on September 5, the day of my return to Paris. * Victor Hugo's sister-in-law. September 14.
The man was dismissed, and it was decided, that the borders of the morass should be explored, although with little hope of finding any trace of the foe; but should such be found, it was not to be neglected, the more especially if the search were conducted elsewhere in vain. The northern part of the forest fell to Hugo's share, and was subdivided by him between his chief retainers.
There was a momentary flash of his eye as he spoke, which convinced Angela that Hugo's disgrace was to be no transient one. Her heart sank; she did not find that Richard's wrath was easy to appease when once thoroughly aroused. Again she looked at Brian, and it seemed to her that his face was paler and more sombre than she had ever seen it before.
"It IS such a pleasure to meet dear Hugo's old friends! AND Miss Wade, too; how delightful! You look so well, Miss Wade! Oh, you're both at St. Nathaniel's now, aren't you? So you can come together. What a privilege for you, Dr. Cumberledge, to have such a clever assistant or, rather, fellow-worker. It must be a great life, yours, Miss Wade; such a sphere of usefulness!
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