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He blinked painfully for a moment or two, and then perceived that he lay within a circle of fierce, grey-coated soldiers, who were putting him a score of questions in a tongue which he felt sure it would take him a year to master. He endeavoured to say so. "Ar-r-rh!" exclaimed one of the soldiers, spitting contemptuously, "C'est un Anglais." "Espion!" "J'en reponds."
She was a philosopher, on a matter-of-fact basis; she had been having lodgers for forty years, and all that she asked of them was that they should pay their bills, make use of the door-mat, and fold their napkins. She cared very little for their secrets. "J'en ai vus de toutes les couleurs," she said to me. She had quite ceased to care for individuals; she cared only for types, for categories.
"Brought some recruits, Cranley?" asked the Banker, adding, as he looked at his hand, "J'en donne!" and becoming absorbed in his game again. "The game you do not understand?" said Cranley to one of his recruits. "Not quite," said the lad, shaking his head. "All right; I will soon show you all about it; and I wouldn't play, if I were you, till you know all about it.
En route je m'étois lié avec quelques-uns de mes compagnons de caravane. Ceux ci, quand ils surent que j'étois logé chez un Franc, vinrent me trouver pour me demander de leur procurer du vin. Le vin leur est défendu par leur loi, et ils n'auroient osé en boire devant les leurs; mais ils espéroient le faire sans risque chez un Franc, et cependant ils revenoient de la Mecque. J'en parlai
Lord Marshal bowed, and, leaning back in his chair, in a full rich voice, he recited the following verses: "'Un trait lance par caprice M'atteignit dans mon printemps; J'en porte la cicatrice Encore, sous mes cheveux blancs.
"Ah! j'en suis bien aise," said Montcalm, taking Duncan familiarly by the arm, and leading him deep into the marquee, a little out of ear-shot; "je déteste ces fripons-l
Oh, expression! That was what Mistress Dobson placed before everything, and what she tried, and tried in vain, to impart to her pupil. 'Ay Chiquita, upon which Paris fed for several seasons, was then at the height of its popularity. Sidonie studied it conscientiously, and all the morning she could be heard singing: "On dit que tu te maries, Tu sais que j'en puis mourir."
"And yet," said I, preserving my gravity with a pertinacity, which nearly made Vincent and the rest of our compatriots assembled lose their's "Madame must allow, that there is a striking resemblance in their persons, and the sublimity of their acting?" "Pour ca, j'en conviens," replied this 'critique de l'Ecole des Femmes. "Mais cependant Liseton n'a pas la Nature! l'ame! la grandeur de Talma!"
At a later period, after he had lost his sight from a pistol-shot received at the combat of the Porte St. Antoine during the Fronde, and had quarrelled with the Duchess, he parodied his own distich, "Pour ce coeur inconstant, qu'enfin Je connais mieux, J'ai fait la guerre au roi; J'en ai perdu les yeux."
Mon Dieu! mon Dieu! j'en ai peur; the wild Welsh blood of these Wynnes! And thy poor little nose how 't is swelled!" Not understanding her exclamations, Jack said as much, but she answered: "Oh, it is a fashion of speech we French have. I shall never be cured of it, I fear. This wild blood what will come of it?"
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