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Pancras Station, or the Crystal Palace, or Westminster Abbey, or St. Paul's, or Bon Secours. They are agreeable to every change in the wind that blows about the world. It blows Gothic, and they say 'By all means' and there is your Gothic a thing dreamt of and done! It suddenly veers south again and blows from the Mediterranean.
When all was ready to build the church of Bon Secours, knowing that nothing could be more useful to the young colony than such a work, and that unnecessary delays would ruin the material, yet when ecclesiastical superiors forbade her to continue, she instantly obeyed, without murmur or reply.
The other is the Grosse Horloge and if there had been space for a third it would have shown something of the interior of the church of St Ouen. The view of the city from the hill of Bon Secours forms another imposing feature, but I think that it hardly equals what we have already seen on the road from Caudebec.
"Pardonnez mon refus, Pelerine jolie, Sans avoir vu m'amie, Je ne chanterai plus." "Ne la revois tu pas Oh Troubadour fidele, Regarde la C'est elle, Ouvre lui donc tes bras. Priant pour notre amour J'allois en pelerine A la vierge divine Demander son secours."
Louis of the Illinois, and prepared to descend the Mississippi; "dans l'esperance de lui donner secours." All was solitude, a voiceless desolation of river, marsh, and sea. He despatched canoes to the east and to the west; searching the coast for some thirty leagues on either side. Histoire de la Nouvelle France, ii. 259.
One fact remains incontestable; it is that, so far as the Luxembourg province is concerned, unemployment has been non-existent. During the worst periods, we have only had a small number of unemployed, and thanks to the initiative taken by the 'Comité de Secours' all, without any exception, have been at work without interruption."
On Monday morning he stopped the pilgrims who were going to worship at Notre Dame de Bon Secours; he induced them to rest themselves upon his causeuse, and did not let them go before he had confessed them well. In short, he led the most agreeable life that a good Fleming can imagine, and only regretted one thing namely, that he had not wished it might last for ever.
As she crossed it with her precious burden, she looked constantly and restlessly from side to side. A terrible fear was upon her, the fear of the world beyond the bayou, the morbid and insane dread she had been under since childhood. When she was at the bayou's edge she stood there, and shouted for help as if a life depended upon it: "Oh, P'tit Maitre! P'tit Maitre! Venez donc! Au secours!
It was not difficult to see the deficiencies the means of rapidly transporting the wounded from the "postes de secours" to an operating table out of the range of cannons in other words auto-ambulances impossible to find in France at that time. So I cabled to America. The first was offered by my father.
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