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Dieu ne fit la sagesse Pour les cerveaux qui hantent les neuf Soeurs." In these days of omnivorous readers, the position of authors has decidedly improved. It has been the fashion of authors of all ages to complain bitterly of their own times. Bayle calls it an epidemical disease in the republic of letters, and poets seem especially liable to this complaint.
We are accustomed to laugh at the French for their braggadocio propensities, and intolerable vanity about La France, la gloire, l'Empereur, and the like; and yet I think in my heart that the British Snob, for conceit and self-sufficiency and braggartism in his way, is without a parallel. There is always something uneasy in a Frenchman's conceit.
"But yes, but yes," she responded; "I know very well that you are acquainted with my misfortune. You saw me once in Paris behind the church of La Trinite, and the other day you recognised me on the balcony here! You were aware that I was there in that room. But if you only knew ah, if you only knew!" Her lips were quivering, and tears were welling into her eyes.
Their mercantile success excited the emulation of M. Chauvin, a sea-captain, who solicited and obtained from the King a continuance of the commission that had been formerly granted to Lords Roberval and de la Roche, with the additional privilege of an exclusive trade in furs.
A clever engineer and professor of mathematics, he was Minister of Finance during the early days of the Revolution. His first play took the world of Madrid by surprise and even by storm. La Esposa del Vengador had an unprecedented success, and at least thirty subsequent dramas, in prose and in verse, have made this mathematician, engineer, and financier one of the most famous men of his day.
"I do think it indispensable, and I am going to " "Stay," exclaimed La Fontaine, "I want your advice." "Upon what? this insult?" "No; tell me really now whether lumiere does not rhyme with orniere." "I should make them rhyme." "Ah! I knew you would." "And I have made a hundred thousand such rhymes in my time." "A hundred thousand!" cried La Fontaine.
"General," said Madame de la Roche-Jugan in a plaintive voice, "you remember I always recommended her to you. I always spoke well of her. She is my daughter my second child. Sigismund, embrace your sister! You permit it, General? Ah, we never know how much we love these children until we lose them! I always spoke well of her; did I not Ge General?"
The only way in the world to draw a man on is to be always out to him, or to go away, and never even let him hear your name mentioned. 'I daresay there's a lot in that, said Cricker, wondering why she did not try that plan with young La France. 'Women of the present day, she continued, growing animated, 'make such a terrible, terrible mistake I What do they do when they like a young man?
La Motte, in a few words, explained that I was an old friend and shipmate of his, and that if I was not, I ought to be an officer, and hoped that he would not be offended. Mr Randolph laughed, and said certainly not, and I soon felt at my ease.
According to the terms on which I was with Monseigneur and his intimates, may be imagined the impression made upon me by this news. I felt that one way or other, well or ill, the malady of Monseigneur would soon terminate. I was quite at my ease at La Ferme. I resolved therefore to wait there until I received fresh particulars.
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