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Updated: May 11, 2025
"Il y a vingt et cinq ans passez qu'il ne me fut monstre une coupe de terre, tournee et esmaillee d'une telle beaute que . . . deslors, sans avoir esgard que je n'avois nulle connoissance des terres argileuses, je me mis a chercher les emaux, comme un homme qui taste en tenebres." Bernard Palissy.
By appreciating him she practically confesses her faultiness, and she is better disposed to meet him half-way than he is to bend an inch: only she is une ame de vingt ans, the world is pleasant, and if the gilded flies of the Court are silly, uncompromising fanatics have their ridiculous features as well.
At least, I avow myself a partisan; and when I compare the popularity of the "Vicomte" with that of "Monte Cristo," or its own elder brother, the "Trois Mousquetaires," I confess I am both pained and puzzled. To those who have already made acquaintance with the titular hero in the pages of "Vingt Ans Après," perhaps the name may act as a deterrent.
It is several days since I wrote to you, and many more since I received a letter from you. That from Fayetteville is still the last. "Gamble's" protegee could not be found. You will probably gain by the exchange. That whom I shall send you is a good, steady-looking animal, agee vingt trois. From appearance, she has been used to count her beads and work hard, and never thought of love or finery.
"It's the identical envelope I found in your safe," declared Ferguson. "And which disappeared last night at the Club de Vingt." Kent turned over the envelope. "See, the red seal." For a minute the men contemplated the seal with the large distinctive letter "B" in the center.
At one moment he would be holding high discourse of Goethe, and translating illustrative passages into classic French; at the next, whining about la dèche, and begging for a petite saleté de vingt sous, in the cant of the Paris gutters.
At least, I avow myself a partisan; and when I compare the popularity of the VICOMTE with that of MONTRO CRISTO, or its own elder brother, the TROIS MOUSQUETAIRES, I confess I am both pained and puzzled. To those who have already made acquaintance with the titular hero in the pages of VINGT ANS APRES, perhaps the name may act as a deterrent.
Since my success at the Salon, I have been able to sell my things. I am only beginning to find out now what a success that picture was. Je t'assure, je fais l'école."... "Tu crois ça ... on fait l'école après vingt ans de travail." "Mon ami, je t'assure, j'ai un public qui me suit."
Robinson, senior, however, having declared that he would be damne first, Master Alonzo spent the evening in visiting the salons of the town, which he painted rouge. Mr. Robinson, senior, spent the evening at home in quiet expectation of his son's return. He was very becomingly dressed in a pantalon quatre vingt treize, and had his whippe de chien laid across his knee.
It was ten o'clock in the evening, when the young man, faithful to his programme, arrived at the door of the large house on the Rue du Vingt Septembre occupied by Madame Steno. It was an immense modern structure, divided into two distinct parts; to the left a revenue building and to the right a house on the order of those which are to be seen on the borders of Park Monceau.
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