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Updated: June 11, 2025
On the regulation plot of grass stood a basin of Roman cement, containing goldfish and a stream of water the size of that which comes from a syringe, which occasionally made microscopic rainbows at which the guests marvelled. The feeding of this irrigator was the constant preoccupation of Monsieur Perdrix, who would sometimes get up at five o'clock in the morning in order to fill the tank.
"There's no place like home," as the poet says. "Mid pleasures and palaces although I may roam," it begins, and it's both very pretty and very true. It's a great blessing to have such a dear little home as this, is not it, Molly? 'Yes, said Molly, rather drearily, having something of the 'Toujours perdrix' feeling at the moment.
We found besides at Reykjavik the war transport 'La Perdrix' and two English merchant steamers, the 'Tasmania and the 'Saxon, freighted by the Admiralty to take to Iceland coals necessary for our voyage to Greenland.
He glanced rapidly to right and left, then slipped a small object into the stranger's hand. "Bâ, I t'ink does ole man is know dat. I t'ink he kip you here till tam w'en dose perdrix and duck is all grow up beeg' nuff so he can fly." "I'm not watched," said the young man in eager tones; "I'll slip away to-night." "Dat no good," objected Picard. "W'at you do?
"Ah, you see, gentlemen," exclaimed the emperor, "this is a new rendering of Lafontaine's celebrated 'Toujours perdrix! The King of Rome, being able to command all that is beautiful and agreeable to his heart's content, is longing for the gutter. Be patient, sire, I cannot immediately fulfil your wish, but I shall have a palace for you, and in its court-yard you shall have a gutter, too.
Instances today are not infrequent where the existing name has been translated from the French, a familiar example being that of the island at the mouth of St. John harbor, called by the French "Isle au Perdrix" and translated into the English "Partridge Island." Another familiar instance occurs in connection with Oak Point in Long Reach.
"I am not surprised at it," answered Vincent; "but Rousseau is not the less a genius for all that: there is no story to bear out the style, and he himself is right when he says 'ce livre convient a tres peu de lecteurs. One letter would delight every one four volumes of them are a surfeit it is the toujours perdrix.
The anger felt by all the guests prevented M. Rade from continuing, and M. Perdrix, as chief, closed the discussion. "Enough, gentlemen! We each have our opinion, and we have no intention of changing it." All agreed with the wise words. But M. Rade, never satisfied, wished to have the last word. "I have, however, one moral," said he. "It is simple and always applicable.
As soon as they had seated themselves, Monsieur Perdrix thanked his "collaborators" in a neat little speech, promising them his protection, the more valuable as his power grew, and he ended with a stirring peroration in which he thanked and glorified a government so liberal and just that it knows how to seek out the worthy from among the humble.
In order to regulate the rhythm of the stroke, she was singing in her shrill voice a boating song, which she interrupted for a minute as she got in front of Patissot. Then, throwing him a kiss, she cried: "You big goose!" On the occasion of the national celebration Monsieur Antoine Perdrix, chief of Monsieur Patissot's department, was made a knight of the Legion of Honor.
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