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Possibly he wrote less, and made a long stay at Castle Howard. "I have more bon jours and bon soirs for her en poche," referring to his little child-friend, Caroline Howard, "than I shall be able to give her during the whole time I shall stay at Castle H." For the despatch of political news he trusted, as he often did, to Storer.
I longed to be the owner of a farm up there, and of a modest cottage overlooking the Father of Waters. I said, "If there's peace and plenty to be had in this world, the heart that is humble might hope for it here," and then the very first village visible was called "Vide Poche." It is now a suburb of St. Louis. I took a passage on another boat up the Illinois river.
I breathed easier things were clearing up. "And may I ask, monsieur, how you knew I had gone in the direction of La Poche?" I inquired. That was still a mystery. "You have a little maid," he replied; "and little maids can sometimes be made to talk." He paused and then said slowly, weighing each word. "Yes, that no doubt surprises you, but we follow every clue.
Presently, I got free of the tangle and out to a grassy stretch of road, once part of the river bed. Here and there emerged, from the matted tangle of the hillside flanking it, the ruins of La Poche.
This attention is net evinced by any flattery, except the most delicate a profound silence when these belles of other days recount anecdotes of their own times, or comment on the occurrences of ours, or by an alacrity to perform the little services of picking up a fallen mouchoir de poche, bouquet, or fan, placing a shawl, or handing to a carriage.
Ciel! s'ecrient les Commissaires, le nom du tyran! Et apres avoir retrouve leur haleine, suffoquee d'abord par l'indignation, ils mettent en poche le brevet de pension, c'est a dire 1000 livres de rente, et emportent la marmite.
Le chapitre des mots d'enfants est fort étendu. J'en cueille quelques-uns au hasard: Voici un trait d'Alexandre de Battenberg, alors qu'il était tout jeune encore. Manquant d'argent de poche, il imagina d'écrire
[Footnote 1: "L'extrémité voisine du cardia se termine par une poche très-considérable et doublée
The principal effort was directed against this passage, the left flank of attack being secured by a subsidiary action confined to the capture of la Poche. At 9 a. m. the French artillery directed their fire successively against the first-line trenches and the supporting trenches. The attack took place in perfect order.
And Fra Girolamo's mind never stopped short of that sublimest end: the objects towards which he felt himself working had always the same moral magnificence. He had no private malice he sought no petty gratification. "Se vi pare che io abbia detto poche cose, non ve ne maravigliate, perche le mie cose erano poche e grandi."
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