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"We are all," said Glanville, with a faint smile, "we are all, in the words of the true old proverb, 'children of a larger growth.'Our first toy is love our second, display, according as our ambition prompts us to exert it. Some place it in horses some in honours, some in feasts, and some voici un exemple in furniture.
If only he would come! God grant that he return to her as he went away! As the unspoken prayer died away on her lips, there was the chugging of an automobile stopping suddenly at the curb. "Les voici!" cried François, dropping into his native tongue in his excitement. He threw open the wide doors and the next instant Ray ran up the steps.
We passed the last of its houses that nestled against the hill, and below that the forest lay like velvet under the moon. The song of our boatmen broke the silence of the night: "Voici le temps et la saison, Voici le temps et la saison, Ah! vrai, que les journees sont longues, Ah! vrai, que les journees sont longues!"
I had no notion you would be here this week-end." "Nor had I till last night. Then an appointment broken down and me voici!" "You stay over to-morrow?" "Of course! But it is absurd that the Feltons should be five miles away!" She stammered: "It is a charming ride." "But too long! One does not want to lose time." She was now sitting; and he beside her.
'Voici Monsieur Geelby, she would cry, and pass along the station platform with consequential gait. A great laugh would break from the station loungers. 'Encore, they cried, and Zilda gave the encore. There was only one other relief she found from the horrible silence which had settled down upon her life concerning the object of her affection.
Les pauvres bons gens! they seem a little surprised when Henry receives them smilingly, begs them to construe the Latin, gives them good wine, and sends them back to London with faces half the length they were on their arrival. Mais voici, Monsieur, le fermier philosophe!" * She was brought up at St. Cyr.
We passed the last of its houses that nestled against the hill, and below that the forest lay like velvet under the moon. The song of our boatmen broke the silence of the night: "Voici le temps et la saison, Voici le temps et la saison, Ah! vrai, que les journees sont longues, Ah! vrai, que les journees sont longues!"
Mademoiselle Le Blanc came on deck, one evening, and, wrapping a soft, thick mantle round her, looked about for a minute, shaded her eyes from the sunset, meantime, with a slender, transparent hand, bowed to one, spoke to another, slipped forward and joined Mr. Raleigh, where he leaned over the ship's side. "Voici ma capote!" said she, before he was aware of her approach. "Ciel! qu'il fait frais!"
"Voici tes ifs en cone et tes tritons joufflus Tes jardins composés où Louis ne vient plus, Et ta pompe arborant les plumes et les casques." It is not possible to give here either an architectural review or a historical chronology of Versailles; either could be made the raison d'être for a weighty volume.
The first aspect of the Orotava Tempe was disappointing after Humboldt's dictum, 'Voici ce qu'il y a de plus delicieux au monde. But our disappointment was the natural reaction of judgment from fancy to reality, which often leads to a higher appreciation.
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