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Updated: June 18, 2025
On the morning of the 7th, news came that the nizam was advancing from Baizwara to attack the English; and that Du Rocher was hurrying from Rajahmahendri, to effect a junction with him. The same morning, the senior artillery officer reported to Colonel Forde that only two days' ammunition for the batteries remained in store.
They were exactly opposite to the terrific Grand Rocher, a gray and pale yellow precipice, with the cascades and the Grand Moulin at its foot, the last houses of the city perched upon its summit in the sky. "And to think that women have been flung from there!" said Claude, clasping his hands round his knees. "Unfaithful women! Rather hard on them!" she answered. "If London husbands " She stopped.
He gives value to everything by those delicate ways which have such an effect upon us women. After taking me Monday to the Rocher de Cancale to dine, he declared that Very was as good a cook as Borrel, and he gave me the little party of pleasure that I told you of all over again, presenting me at dessert with a ticket for the opera. They sang 'William Tell, which, you know, is my craze."
«Mais derrière ces plans, on voit les couches arquées, qui sont horizontales dans le bas, servir de base au rocher, se relever ensuite sur la droite, et venir en tournant former le faite de ce même rocher.»
Adolphe has ordered a dainty little dinner for two, at Borrel's Rocher de Cancale. "As we are going to the Varieties, suppose we dine at the tavern," exclaims Adolphe, on the boulevard, with the air of a man suddenly struck by a generous idea.
One of the Baroness' first efforts in this cause was made in the ominous-looking district, formerly known as la Petite Pologne Little Poland bounded by the Rue du Rocher, Rue de la Pepiniere, and Rue de Miromenil. There exists there a sort of offshoot of the Faubourg Saint-Marceau.
The old doctor, Du Rocher, was leaning over them, looking at them with a fixed, anxious, and despairing eye. The mother was on her knees, her head clasped in her hands, and weeping bitterly. At the foot of the bed stood the father, with his savage mien his arms crossed, and his eyes dry. He shuddered at intervals, and murmured, in a hoarse, hollow voice: "Both of them! Both of them!"
«Après une bonne demi-heure de marche sur le glacier, nous traversons une arrête de glace chargée de terre, de sable et de débris de rocher. J'ai parlé dans le 1er. vol. de ces arrêtes parallèles
The little girl threw her arms round his neck and kissed him. Buvat felt that the tears stood in his eyes, and as he had often heard that you must not cry before sick people, for fear of agitating them, he drew out his watch, and assuming a gruff voice to conceal his emotion "Hum, it is a quarter to ten, I must go. Good-day, Madame du Rocher."
"I shall not believe you. Being in funds, I say, you lived riotously, stayed at one of the best hotels, kept a landau and pair, dined at the Trois Frères and the Rocher de Cancale, frequented the theatres; madame wore the most expensive toilettes. But you presently ran short of cash." "It's not surprising. But I presume I was at liberty to do what I liked with my own."
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