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And the two gentlemen went off to try the wine. I am astonished that a man of Kurz Pacha's tact should have opened the book-case. People have no right to suppose that the pretty bindings on one's shelves are books. Why, they might as well insist upon trying if the bloom on one's cheek, or the lace on one's dress, or, in fact, one's figure, were real. Such things are addressed to the eye.
Those Frenchmen didn't know what they wanted; but he knew well enough what he wanted: they didn't want him, perhaps, but he did want them, and now he has them. A true nephew of his uncle, Kurz Pacha; and you can see what a man the great Napoleon must have been, when the little Napoleon succeeds so well upon the strength of the name."
Croesus?" "Perhaps not," said Mr. Croesus. "Well, some people don't," said darling little Daisy, folding up her fan, as if quite ready for another turn. "Come, now; there it is," said Timon, and, grasping her with his right arm, they glided away. "Kurz Pacha," said I, "I wonder who sent Ada Aiguille that bouquet?" "Sir John Franklin, I presume," returned he. "What do you mean by that," asked I.
The general herbarium has been arranged on the Kew model. Besides a large collection of plants made by Zollinger between 1845 and 1858, it contains the valuable collections gathered by Teysmann, between 1854 and 1870, throughout the Malay Archipelago. Specimens by Kurz and Scheffer are also found, together with other recent collections of plants from Borneo and adjacent islands.
That this impulse, which later became the guiding principle of “Wilhelmine Arend,” was already strong in “Tobias Knaut” is hinted at by Gervinus, but passed over in silence by other writers. Kurz, following Wieland, who reviewed the novel in his Merkur, finds that the influence of Sterne was baneful.
I disarmed him in a twinkling; and as I sent his sword flying over his head, said to him, 'Kurz, did ever you know a man guilty of a mean action who can do as I do now? This silenced the rest of the grumblers; and no man ever sneered at me after that. No man can suppose that to a person of my fashion the waiting in antechambers, the conversation of footmen and hangers-on, was pleasant.
I beg a thousand pardons for preaching, but the text was altogether too pregnant." And so Kurz Pacha whirled out of the room, humming a waltz of Strauss. He has heard of his recall to Sennaar since he has been here and we shall hear nothing more of him. We, too, leave Paris in a few days for home, and you will not hear from us again. Mrs.
"'I don't understand you, sir, replied the chambermaid, somewhat mollified. "'Why, my dear girl, if I paid Sambo a dollar for my dinner, I expect to pay Dolly something for my chamber, of course. "'Well, sir, you are certainly very kind, I with pleasure, I'm sure, replied she, entirely appeased, taking the money and vanishing. "I," said Kurz Pacha, "entered my room and locked the door.
It occurred to Haydn to take a couple of companions along and serenade the lady, playing some of his own music. Soon after they had begun to play the house door opened and Kurz himself stood there in dressing gown and slippers. "Whose music was that you were playing?" he asked. "My own," was the answer. "Indeed; then just step inside." The three entered, wondering.
"There are some people, my darling Caroline," she said to me, "with whom it does not do to quarrel. It isn't christian to quarrel. I can't afford to be on bad terms with the De Familles." "It is odd, isn't it," said Kurz Pacha to Mrs.
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