l'arjan

Updated: July 20, 2025

"Quel dommage! je vais la couper." "Nein, ce n'est rien; et pisque t'as tue ce mechant. T'es fierement beau, tout d' meme, toi; t'es lien miex que ma grande soeur. "Will you not kiss me, too, ma mie?" said Gerard. "Je ne demande par miex. Tiens, tiens, tiens! c'est doulce celle-ci. Ah! que j'aimons les hommes! Des fames, ca ne m'aurait jamais donne l'arjan, blanc, plutot ca m'aurait ri au nez.

Charles Reade - The Cloister and the Hearth

'Just see how he's got himself up. He's put on a new coat so that you should see that he's an officer. Ah, these people, these people! Sure enough Vanyusha came in and announced that the master of the house wished to see Olenin. 'L'arjan! he remarked profoundly, to forewarn his master of the meaning of this visitation. The cornet, Elias Vasilich, was an educated Cossack.

graf Leo Tolstoy - The Cossacks