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IF I had known how difficult it was to write a History of the World, I should never have undertaken the task. Of course, any one possessed of enough industry to lose himself for half a dozen years in the musty stacks of a library, can compile a ponderous tome which gives an account of the events in every land during every century. But that was not the purpose of the present book.
He is a very good man to keep guard over the cable, and the ladies of Esmeralda ought to have their turn." Barrios, an indubitably brave man, had no great opinion of Sotillo. It was through the Esmeralda cable alone that the San Tome mine could be kept in constant touch with the great financier, whose tacit approval made the strength of the Ribierist movement.
Westerfelt found him with his back to the door, sitting over the fire, a leather-bound tome in his lap. "Hello!" he cried, seeing who it was; "pull up a seat." Westerfelt drew a rickety chair from beneath a dusty desk and sat down. "Did you get home all right?" he asked. "Yes."
The postscript seems to refer to a wretched scandal about Caroline, and Lucien; see Iung's Lucien, tome i. pp. 411, 432-433. It has been found difficult to decide between C and La F . The latter has proposed his daughter in marriage to me. Intrigue has been carried to the last extreme. I do not know yet whether the High Priest has decided for one party or the other.
My friend of the feet saw my dilemma, and down went his book, and he sprang to my assistance in an instant, "Allow me," he said; and in a moment the heavy tome was brought down, dusted by a few turns of his pocket-handkerchief and laid on the table for my accommodation.
A man at a table opened a tome which might have contained all the names in Paris. He dipped his quill and wrote by candlelight. "Political offender or common criminal?" he inquired. "Political offender," the officer answered. "What is he charged with?" "Trying to assassinate the emperor in his post-chaise." "La, la, la!" the recorder grunted. "Another attempt!
Par C.A. Sainte-Beuve, de l'Académie Française. Tome Quatorziéme. Of quite a different school is M. Armand de Pontmartin, who, under the titles of "Causeries du Samedi," "Causeries Littéraires," etc., has now issued over a dozen volumes touching on all points of contemporary letters, often very severe in their strictures. Pontmarlin represents the Catholic sentiment in literature.
And the heroic Father Roman I imagine the old padre blowing up systematically the San Tome mine, uttering a pious exclamation at every bang, and taking handfuls of snuff between the explosions the heroic Padre Roman says that he is not afraid of the harm Holroyd's missionaries can do to his flock, as long as he is alive." Mrs.
He seemed to be talking more to himself than tome. "You are a much better advocate than the Vicomte's wife, for instance. She answers questions and has a temper Ciel! what a temper!" "You have seen the Vicomtesse?" I exclaimed, and I grew cold with apprehension, knowing as I did the licence of that woman's tongue. "Seen her?" he echoed whimsically. "I have seen her, heard her, well-nigh felt her.
Thus it was that my informant had encumbered herself with the ponderous tome; but she hastened to assure me that this was the first time she had brought it out. For her visit to Mr. She didn't really care a straw that he should write his name; what she did want was to look straight into his face. I demurred a little. "And why do you require to do that?" "Because I just love him!"
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