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Ils trouvent une pendule, don't la pointe de Paiguille etoit, comme la plupart des pointes d'aiguilles, terminee en trefle: il leur semble que cette pointe a quelque chose d'approchant d'une fleur de lys; et non-obstant le decret qui ordonne de respecter les monumens des arts, il confisquent la pendule.

As Madame de Santos is ushered to her rooms, she decides to act at once, and drop forever her past. But Marie? Marie Berard wonders at the obscure hotel. Her brain finds no reason for this isolation. "Ah! les modes de Paris." Madame will soon emerge as a lovely vision. In the years of her service with Hortense Duval, Marie has quietly enriched herself.

At once, Corbet went upstairs, and, waking his mother, told her the story of his girl's mysterious disappearance. "We'll go round to Les Casquets and bring Mrs. Cartier over here, mother. She's a poor creature, and she can't be left alone. Who can tell when Cartier and I will be back!" It was two o'clock before the men started to walk to Saint Pierre Port.

Counting on Gaubertin for the future, and feeling sure of two acres whenever Les Aigues should be brought to the hammer, he was roughly awakened by the curt speech of the general, who, after four quiescent years, was now revealing his true character, that of a bourgeois rich man who was determined to be no longer deceived.

"'Pray what are they, please Your Majesty? "'Well, I will give you an instance. For example, 'les culottes' what do you call them? "'Small clothes, replied her ladyship. "'Ma foi! how can they be called small clothes for one large man? Now I do look in the dictionary, and I find, for the word culottes breeches. "'Oh, please Your Majesty, we never call them by that name in England.

When Madame du Deffand said that its title should have been De l'Esprit sur les Lois she put her finger on its weak spot. Montesquieu's generalizations are always bold, always original, always fine; unfortunately, they are too often unsound into the bargain. The fluid elusive facts slip through his neat sentences like water in a sieve.

I shall continue the Sub-Prefect's narrative in his own words: "Les Commissaires, en arrivant

His expression was characteristic of the man when he was disturbed. Father Adam's dark eyes were surveying his outfit. There was no emotion in them. They were calm, and simply searching, in the fashion of the practised trail man. "Say, Les, this is just the craziest thing of all your crazy life," Bat said at last, in a tone kept low for all the feeling that lay behind it.

Cette legende nous explique, non seulement l'extreme importance que les Bouddhistes du Tubet attachent a la formule "Om mani padme houm," mais elle nous demontre aussi que son veritable sens est celui que j'ai donne plus haut: Oh! le joyau dans le lotus; Amen! Il est evident qu'elle se rapporte a "Avalokites' vara" ou "Padma pani" lui-meme, qui naquit dans une fleur de lotus. Um Mani Panee.

With his coarse pocket handkerchief he mopped up the blood that was flowing from a cut on her head. "How did you nearly kill me?" she asked, "what harm have I done?" "You've come sneaking in here, and in this darkness, and I hit you when you banged open the door. It seems you were falling over the doorstep. You're pretty pale, my girl, but I believe I know your face. Aren't you from Les Casquets?"