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Rosalie was uncommonly active, and flew about here and there, much to the harassment of the Pole, who repeatedly wiped his forehead, and observed that it was warm work, and put him in mind of the last sad battle for La Pologne. Monsieur Goupille, who had lately taken lessons in dancing, and was vain of his agility mounted the chairs and tables, as Rosalie approached with great grace and gravity.
"It is one attributed to grandmamma's papa, the Marquis de Courval. It has become quite a hackneyed remark since," said Adele. "Come, ladies," said the joyous Rosalie; "I volunteer my slipper." "Asseyez-vous donc," said Madame Beavor to the Pole. "Have you no games of this sort in Poland?" "Madame, La Pologne is no more," said the Pole. "But with the swords of her brave "
During this time Monsieur and Madame Giraud hid themselves behind the window-curtain. "Amuse yourself, men ami," said Madame Beaver, to the liberated Pole. "Ah, madame," sighed Monsieur Sovolofski, "how can I be gay! All my property confiscated by the Emperor of Russia! Has La Pologne no Brutus?" "I think you are in love," said the host, clapping him on the back.
We might compare M. Fouquet's account of Poland with Neumann's account of Kosciusko, or Freneau's of Washington, but will content ourselves with referring the reader to better European sources of knowledge, as the Breslau Zeitung, Ost Deutsche Zeitung, Czas, Wiek, La Pologne, etc.
"L'exemple d'un monarque ordonne et se fait suivre: Quand Auguste buvait, la Pologne était ivre; Et quand Louis le Grand brûlait d'un tendre amour, Paris devint Cythère, et tout suivait sa cour; Lorsqu'il devint dévot, ardent
As I looked over uncle's things when the laundress brought them this afternoon, I found a collar that was not his. It was marked 'S.P., and I at once felt a great desire to know who owned it. The woman was waiting for her money, and I asked her. 'Monsieur Pologne, she said, for his name is too much for her. She took it into his room, and that was the end of it."
said Madame Beavor, reading the motto. "What do you say to that?" "Madame, there is no triumph for La Pologne!" Madame Beavor uttered a little peevish exclamation, and glanced in despair at her red-headed countryman. "Are you, too, a great politician, sir?" said she in English. "No, mem! I'm all for the ladies." "What does he say?" asked Madame Caumartin.
He has little house on rue de Petit Pologne." I found on that street in a cottage an American vendor of spectacles, who by some chance of propinquity had married a descendant of a mutineer of the Bounty.
Petticoat-government is so securely established there, that I suppose the French are about to throw a petticoat over the heads of their allies. France and Poland are two fevimes galantes." "Yes, sire," replied Kaunitz, "but one of them is old and ugly. Lindaine La Pologne is an old coquette, who puts on youthful airs, and thinks she hides her wrinkles with paint."
I forget where I have read the story of some member of the Convention being very angry because the library contained no copy of the laws which Minos gave to the Cretans. III. xiii. III. xv. He actually recommended the Poles to pay all public functionaries in kind, and to have the public works executed on the system of corvée. Gouvernement de Pologne, ch. xi. Cont. Soc., III. ii. II. i. II. ii.
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