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"Alexis Ivanovitch," began the General in a tone of affectionate upbraiding, "may I say to you that I find it strange, exceedingly strange, that In short, your conduct towards myself and my family In a word, your er extremely " "Eh! "Mon cher monsieur, notre general se trompe. What he means to say is that he warns you he begs of you most earnestly not to ruin him. I use the expression because "
Is there no hope that journalism will ever take again these graces of unanswerable argument? No: they would no longer wear the peculiar aspect of adult innocence that was Crabbe's. "Il s'est trompe de defunte."
Saying which, he produced from one of his pockets a little, greasy, dog-eared volume of Beranger, about the size of a small snuff-box, and began singing aloud, to a very cheerful air, a song of which a certain faithless Mademoiselle Lisette was the heroine, and of which the refrain was always: "Lisette! ma Lisette, Tu m'as trompé toujours; Je veux, Lisette, Boire
If ye do this, both I and my sons shall have met with just treatment at your hands. But it is now time to depart for me to die, for you to live. But which of us is going to a better state is unknown to every one but God. Aristophanes. "Iliad," lib. xviii. ver. 94, etc. See the "Crito," sec. 5. ouden legei, literally, "he says nothing:" on se trompe, ou l'on vous impose, Cousin.
"Il s'est trompe de defunte." The writer of this phrase had his sense of that portly manner of French, and his burlesque is fine; but the paradox must be risked because he was French he was not able to possess all its grotesque mediocrity to the full; that is reserved for the English reader.
He stood looking most unhappy. 'She was to appear, sir, in a few perhaps a week, a month. A nod dismissed him. So Victor said of his darlings' voices. Nesta's and her mother's were a perfect combination; Mr. Barmby's trompe in union, sufficiently confirmed the popular impression, that they were artistes.
"You see," he said, "there's my old client, Van Trompe, has come over from Kentucky, and set all his slaves free; and he has bought a place seven miles up the creek, here, back in the woods, where nobody goes, unless they go on purpose; and it's a place that isn't found in a hurry. There she'd be safe enough; but the plague of the thing is, nobody could drive a carriage there tonight, but me."
But now let us try to go a little deeper, and to find, beneath our actual habits and practice, the very ground and cause out of which they spring. 119. +Proverbs 28:26. "He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered." The King James Bible. 122. +"Qui est-ce qu'on trompe ici?" This fundamental ground is our preference of doing to thinking.
Refuse rhetoric, by the way, rather than Emerson's "fossil poetry," would seem to be the right name for human language as some of the processes of the several recent centuries have left it. The French comedy, then, is fairly stuffed with thin-S for an Englishman. They are not all, it is true, so finely comic as "Il s'est trompe de defunte."
His course under such circumstances he described in a couplet from an old French comedy: "Le bruit est pour le fat, la plainte pour le sot; L'honnete homme trompe s'eloigne et ne dit mot. Comedie par Mr. Delanoue, 1756." He was never known to take part in any family quarrel, or personal broil, of any description whatsoever.
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