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"If I yield to-day, it is because I struggle alone, and no longer have the vigor of mind to contend for right, as in years gone by I would have done. The countess remained looking at the parer for a time, then she raised her tearful eyes to the face of the empress. "I thank your majesty," said she, deeply moved, "for allowing me to see this letter.
The prognosis was most unfavourable. For Mr. Parer shrewdly argued that a rival of the late Don Pomponio would look askance at those whom His Excellency had exalted at himself, for instance. And what then?
Lisette ici doit surtout apparaitre, Vive, jolie, avec un frais chapeau; Deja sa main a l'etroite fenetre Suspend son schal, en guise de rideau. Sa robe aussi va parer ma couchette; Respecte, Amour, ses plis longs et flottans. J'ai su depuis qui payait sa toilette. Dans un grenier qu'on est bien a vingt ans!
The other day we had a nutting picnic, and she gave me and Phil a loaf of Election cake and six quince turnovers to carry. The boys gave three cheers for her when they saw them. Did Elsie tell you that I have invented a new machine? It is called 'The Intellectual Peach Parer. There is a place to hold a book while you pare the peaches. It is very convenient.
Guy said "Thank you" and began to turn the parer eagerly. "But I don't mean what you are doin'," said Guy. "I knew that was mince pies. I thought that was work. I meant what you were saying. It sounds so funny! I never heard it before." "Mamma made it up," explained Malcolm. "It's great fun. We always play it at Thanksgiving time.
It is derived from the French parer to parry, and chute a fall. In appearance a parachute is very similar to an enormous umbrella. M. Blanchard, one of the pioneers of ballooning, has the honour of first using a parachute, although not in person. The first "aeronaut" to descend by this apparatus was a dog.
"Well, you do that," agreed Dimple. "And Bubbles can set the table." "Why doesn't this apple go right?" said Florence. "It wabbles around so and there! it has gone bouncing off to the other side of the kitchen; how provoking!" "It is a sort of 'skew-jawed' one," pronounced Dimple. "I can never do anything with those on the parer.
The word signifies a guard against falling from the French parer, to ward off, and chute, a fall, and is allied to parasol, which means literally "a warder off of the sun."
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