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"I do believe you are true though there are few men, and still fewer women, of whom I should like to say as much. By the way, Arbuthnot, beware of that little flirt, Madame de Marignan. She has charming eyes, but no more heart than a vampire. Besides, an entanglement with a married woman!... cela ne se peut pas, mon cher.

«On peut objecter qu'une temperature toujours froide comme celle de Santa Fée, joint

Ca peut etre long, mais on les aura!" "It may take long, but we shall get them!" all these and a thousand more things are vivid in my memory but cannot be told now. One scene sticks in my mind and asks to be recorded. The hospital was just back of the Verdun lines. Its roofs were marked with the Red Cross. Twenty-four hundred beds, all clean and quiet.

"Dans Petat actuel des choses, avant dix ans, toute l'Europe peut etre cosaque, ou toute en republique." III. p. 111, Journal, 18 Avril 1816. A better than Napoleon, who saw mankind with truer insight, Lafayette, has recorded a clearer prophecy.

"On peut etre puls fin qu'un autre, mais pas plus fin que tous les autres." Piedro's father, amongst others, had reason to complain. He saw his own customers fall off from him, and was told, whenever he went into the market, that his son was such a cheat there was no dealing with him.

Cela ne se peut pas; comme tout ici est si charmant." ... There was no reply to be made to such an appeal, so I bowed, paid, and retired. Then the bridge was blown up, the streets speckled with bullets. As we advanced the marks of war became stronger and stronger, every village wore a rueful aspect, and every individual told a tale more and more harrowing to the feelings.

Some French friends of mine who knew both, said of Mr. Churchill, 'De l'esprit on ne peut pas plus meme a Paris, the highest compliment a Parisian can pay, but they allowed that Beauclerc had 'beaucoup plus d'ame." "Yes," said Helen; "how far superior!"

Her girl-friends, the students here, of course don't.... With us in Russia the church is so identified with oppression, that it seems almost necessary when one wishes to be free in this life, to give up all hope of a future existence. But I cannot give up praying for my son." She added with a sort of stony grimness, colouring slightly, and in French, "Ce n'est peut etre qu'une habitude."

This brought them partly into view, and the rifles of the emigrants on that side bore on them till they broke in sheer terror and fled in a scattered sauve qui peut. The Crows swerved under the enfilading fire of the men who now crossed the ford.

'La comtesse veut plaider', and I fancy 'faire autre chose si elle peut. Jubeo to bene valere. BLACKHEATH, May 18, O. S. 1758. MY DEAR FRIEND: I have your letter of the 9th now before me, and condole with you upon the present solitude and inaction of Hamburg. You are now shrunk from the dignity and importance of a consummate minister, to be but, as it were, a common man.