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M. Tavernier received the newcomer with a sickly smile, which disappeared as soon as M. Batifol left the room. "Go and take your place in that empty seat there, in the third row," said M. Tavernier, in an indifferent tone. He deigned, however, to conduct Amedee to the seat which he was to occupy.
M. Tavernier was a tall young man with a sallow complexion, a bachelor who, had he been living like his late father, a sergeant of the gendarmes, in a pretty house surrounded by apple trees and green grass, would not, perhaps, have had that 'papier-mache' appearance, and would not have been dressed at eight o'clock in the morning in a black coat of the kind we see hanging in the Morgue.
Cap. xviii. [Footnote 2: The expression of TAVERNIER is to the effect that as compared with all others, the elephants of Ceylon are "plus courageux
Tavernier saw this celebrated jewel two hundred years ago, not long after its discovery. It came into the possession of Queen Victoria in 1849, three thousand years, say the Eastern sages, after it belonged to Karna, the King of Anga!
"You will soon see what a cur he is," whispered the pupil in disgrace; as soon as the teacher had returned to his seat. M. Tavernier struck his ruler on the edge of his chair, and, having reestablished silence, invited pupil Godard to recite his lesson.
Little Amedee wanted to cry; he listened with stupefaction blended with fright as the scholars by turns unwound their bobbins. To think that to-morrow he must do the same! He never would be able. M. Tavernier frightened him very much, too.
The Dutch in the Spice Islands Lemaire and Schouten Tasman Mendana Queiros and Torrès Pyrard de Laval Pietro della Valle Tavernier Thévenot Bernier Robert Knox Chardin De Bruyn Kæmpfer. The Dutch were not slow in perceiving the weakness and decadence of the Portuguese power in Asia.
Some of these pearls were larger than a pigeon's egg, and were worth as much, and more than that which the traveller Tavernier sold to the Shah of Persia for three millions, and surpassed the one in the possession of the Imaum of Muscat, which I had believed to be unrivalled in the world. Therefore, to estimate the value of this collection was simply impossible.
M. Tavernier was a tall young man with a sallow complexion, a bachelor who, had he been living like his late father, a sergeant of the gendarmes, in a pretty house surrounded by apple trees and green grass, would not, perhaps, have had that 'papier-mache' appearance, and would not have been dressed at eight o'clock in the morning in a black coat of the kind we see hanging in the Morgue.
Dow, who saw the famous throne some twenty years before Tavernier, describes two peacocks standing behind it with their tails expanded, which were studded with jewels. Between the peacocks stood a parrot, life size, cut out of a single emerald! Friday, October 20.
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