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But in effect, from the turned-up toes of his bottes sauvages to the ends of his black mustache, the proprietor of this name was a Frenchman Canadian French, you understand, and therefore even more proud and tenacious of his race than if he had been born in Normandy. Somewhere in his family tree there must have been a graft from the Green Isle.
A titled woman of France fell in love with one of them, and there were all sorts of high jinks. As to the young girl La Belle Americaine they called her it seems that Paris could not have enough of her. She was all the rage. She taught them the dances of the 'sauvages. 'Tres interessantes' the Frenchmen thought these dances, it seems. That's all we know of her she danced.
A monarchy, a foolish Louis, sent a marine savant and soldier named Dumont D'Urville to the South Seas with the casual orders: "'D'apprivoiser les hommes, et de rendre les femmes un peu plus sauvages; to tame the men and make the women a little more savage.
As a rule, the husband cannot sell his wife's children whilst her brother may dispose of them as he pleases the vox populi exclaims, "What! is the man to go hungry when he can trade off his sister's brats?" The strong-minded of London and New York have not yet succeeded in thoroughly organizing and popularizing their clubs; the belles sauvages of the Gaboon have.
"Ha! le combat commence en effet!" "Is it the Arabs who now fire?" demanded Eve, unable, in spite of terror, to repress her interest. "Non, c'est cet admirable jeune homme, Monsieur Blunt, qui devance tous les autres!" "And now, mademoiselle, that must surely be the barbarians?" "Du tout. Les sauvages fuient. C'est encore du ba teau de Monsieur Blunt qu'on tire.
'Messieurs les sauvages Ecossois dat is, gentilmans savages, have the goodness d'arranger vous. The clan, comprehending the order more from the gesture than the words, and seeing the Prince himself present, hastened to dress their ranks. 'Ah! ver well! dat is fort bien! said the Count de Beaujeu. 'Gentilmans sauvages! mais, tres bien. Eh bien! 'Ah, oui! face. Je vous remercie, Monsieur.
Que dire si l'on voyait dans un autre genre de mechaniques, entreprendre le radoub ou la construction d'un vaisseau de ligne avec la seule theorie, avec les seules resources des Sauvages dans la construction de leurs Pirogues!"
The broad clearing lay lonely and still, and Contrecoeur, with what was left of his garrison, waited in suspense for the issue. [Footnote 220: Liste des Officiers, Cadets, Soldats, Miliciens, et Sauvages qui composaient le Détachement qui a été au devant d'un Corps de 2,000 Anglois
"Nothin' but a furnace in th' hold " "W'y don't hit smoke?" "'Ow do I know?" "Hit ain't a fire!" "W'ot is hit?" "Phosphescence, didn't you 'ear Mister Madden say!" "Will hit sink 'er?" Deschaillon gave a sharp laugh. "What sauvages!" By this time it became clear to everyone that it was not a fire.
If I mistake not, Gode's experience will confirm what I have said. Eh, voyageur?" "C'est vrai, monsieur. I vas prisonnier in le nation; not Navagh, but l'Apache moch de same pour tree mons. I have les sauvages seen manger eat one deux tree tree enfants rotis, like hump rib of de buffles. C'est vrai, messieurs, c'est vrai."
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