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Seigne, as he came up with two ladies from the meadows below the house, "because you come into it so suddenly, just as you do into that Oriental town." But what a charming occidental place it is!
Many cases of excellent claret had found their way in this fashion to a public-house which had acquired quite a reputation for its Bordeaux with the officers quartered in its neighbourhood. The wine-bins at Woodstock were found full of bottles of water. Much of the capital port left by Colonel Tighe had gone but the hock was untouched. "Probably the butler didn't care for hock," said Mr. Seigne.
Seigne comes of a French Protestant stock long ago planted in Ireland, and his Gallic blood doubtless helps him to handle the practical problems daily submitted in these days to an Irish land-agent problems very different, as he thinks, from those with which an Irish agent had to deal in the days before 1870.
Only just let me know the point at which you mean to fight, and then we'll see if we can agree about something." "The truth is," said Mr. Seigne, "that there is a pressure upward now from below.
"Here is peace made," wrote Madame de Sevigne to the Count of Bussy. "The king thought it handsomer to grant it this year to Spain and Holland than to take the rest of Flanders; he is keeping that for another time." The Prince of Orange thought as Madame de Seigne: he regarded the peace of Nimeguen as a truce, and a truce fraught with danger to Europe.
«Du haut de cette cime, élevée de 1396 toises au-dessus de la mer, on a une vue très entendue. Au nord et au nord-ouest les vallées de Mont Joie, de Passy, de Sallanches; au couchant la haut cime calcaire dont j'ai parlé, § 759; au sud les montagnes qui s'étendent depuis le Chapiu jusqu'au Col de la Seigne;
I have met no one who has seemed to me so cool and precise as Mr. Seigne in his study of the phenomena of the present situation. I asked him whether he could now say, as Mr. Senior did a quarter of century ago, that the Irish tenants were less improvident, and more averse from running into debt than the English.
Seigne drove me over through a beautiful country to Woodstock, near Inistiogue, the seat of the late Colonel Tighe, the head of the family of which the authoress of "Psyche" was an ornament. It is the finest place in this part of Ireland, and one of the finest I have seen in the three kingdoms, a much more picturesque and more nobly planted place indeed than its namesake in England.
He finds those particular strata in the other side of the mountain col de la Seigne, and gives us the following observations: "Plus bas on passe entre deux bancs de ces mêmes brèches, entre lesquels sont interposées des couches d'ardoises noires et de grès feuilletés micacés, dont la situation est la même.
But pyramidal mountains are equally formed of those two different materials. In plate V, under the letter B, may be seen the calcareous pyramids which are near the col de la Seigne, and which in plate VI. are represented under the letter G. Here is a view of the summit of the Alps, from whence we may be allowed to draw the most important conclusions in favour of our theory.
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