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His commander officer said he never knew any young men to acquire so much nautical knowledge in so short a time. After reaching the grade of post-captain, Coffin for a breach of the regulation of the service, was deprived of his vessel, and Earl Howe struck his name from the list of post-captains. This act being illegal, he was reinstated in 1790.
Qu'est-ce que les moines font dans ce couvent? 9. A quoi servent les dons reçus par les frères quêteurs? 10. Pourquoi les nègres ont-ils montré tant d'humeur? After several strides the camel lengthened out his long knotty legs. 2. Tartarin picked himself up. 3. He felt himself grow pale, but had to resign himself. 4. Nothing could stop him any more. 5.
Rosa et Cornélius échangèrent un regard. Celui de Rosa voulait dire: Vous voyez bien! Celui de Cornélius signifiait: Qu'il soit fait ainsi qu'il plaira au Seigneur! Van Baerle was tried the second day after his incarceration in the Buytenhoff.
At the age of fifteen, Mme. de La Fayette lost her father; and her mother, after brief waiting, and if Cardinal de Retz is to be believed much intriguing, found a second husband in the Chevalier Renaud de Sévigné.
If we are gifted with even a small portion of the imagination possessed by Tartarin and his fellow-townsmen, we can understand how a turnip may after a while come really to be a baobab; if we have not sufficient imagination to admit this possibility, we shall not be able to appreciate the story of the life and adventures of Tartarin de Tarascon.
"My father said to me again and again," Léon Daudet tells us, "I should like, after I have accomplished my task, to set myself up as a merchant of happiness. My reward would be in my success!" This longing, so entirely characteristic of the man, is manifest everywhere in his earlier work, only rarely in the great novels; unfortunately the great novels were his "task."
Jack begins his suffering in a wretched school where his mother has placed him after the Jesuits had refused to receive him. This school is supported by the tuition fees of boys from tropical countries, petits pays chauds, as Moronval, the villainous director, calls them.
»I thereford forbear to offer any remarks on the character of the accompanyings papers, which I schall be obliged to you to return to me, after having read them. »I am with the highest regard and consideration, dear prince de Talleyrand, your most faithfully. «Downing-street, le 26 avril 1831. »Mon cher prince,
7 22 Nîmes: Daudet's birthplace, an ancient city with remarkable Roman remains, eighteen miles west of Tarascon. 7 25 après s'être bien fait prier: 'after having been begged a long time'; cf. je me fais prier, je me suis fait prier.
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