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But why not always admit the most charitable construction? I had been wandering a long time at random. Feeling a little tired, I turned into the Parc Monceau, at the time when it was too late for the mothers and babies and too early for the lovers' invasion. I sat down by the transparent lake which so prettily reflects its diadem of arbours.

Thus was born that delightful Paris suburb, with the broad, shady avenues and comfortable houses, with which one is familiar to-day. The aristocratic Parc de Neuilly, with Saint James, is the only tract near Paris where one finds such lovely gardens and such fresh, shady avenues. Another quarter of Neuilly possesses a history worthy of being recounted.

The Scotts began by buying a house in Paris for 2,000,000 francs, it is near the Parc Monceau." "Yes, Rue Murillo," said Paul; "I tell you I went to a ball there. It was " "Let Monsieur de Larnac speak. You can tell us presently about the ball at Mrs. Scott's." "Well, now, imagine my Americans established in Paris," continued M. de Larnac, "and the showers of gold begun.

Walking out one day to the Abbey of Parc, outside the town a house of White Canons, Erasmus himself being a Black he came upon a manuscript in their library, the Annotations of Valla on the New Testament. There was an affinity between his mind and that of the famous scholar-canon of St.

We are two motorists travelling for our pleasure and collecting old saucepans if we feel so inclined." He called his chauffeur: "Adolphe, take us to the Parc des Landes by a roundabout road." Half an hour later they reached the sunken track and began to scramble down it on foot beside the wooded slopes.

When this was detected the guilty firemen were surrounded by a body of cavalry, conducted into the Parc de Monceaux, and there shot. I could count the number of people I met along the Boulevards, so few were those who ventured to walk about. The fears of petroleum and explosions are universal.

Along the grand avenue of the Champs-Élysées there were only two immense parallel rows of gas-lamps and here and there, moving, luminous points that looked like glow-worms. Vaudrey mechanically stopped a moment to contemplate the scene. That did not interest him, but something within him controlled him. He continued to walk unwittingly in the direction of Parc Monceau.

The Parc de Bougainville Ivan Stroganoff He tells me the history of Tahiti He berates the Tahitians Wants me to start a newspaper. In the parc de Bougainville I sat down on a bench on which was an old European. He was reading a tattered number of "Simplicissimus," and held the paper close to his watery eyes. I said, "Good morning" and he replied in fluent though accented English.

The year opened wet, with fresh south westerly winds, which in the second week chopped suddenly; and for four days a continuous freezing gale blew on us from the N.W. It was then that the lambs began to drop; and for three nights I exchanged pipe and fireside for a lantern and the lower corner of Friar's Parc at the back of the towans, where the ewes were gathered in the lew.

Then I have had two long beds made in the grass on either side of the semicircle, each sown with mignonette, and one filled with Marie van Houtte, and the other with Jules Finger and the Bride; and in a warm corner under the drawing-room windows is a bed of Madame Lambard, Madame de Watteville, and Comtesse Riza du Parc; while farther down the garden, sheltered on the north and west by a group of beeches and lilacs, is another large bed, containing Rubens, Madame Joseph Schwartz, and the Hen.

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