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49 24 il faisait un soleil, une poussière: faire may be used in almost any expression concerning the weather; faire chaud, du soleil, du vent, de la poussière, etc. Here, 'it was so terribly hot, so dusty. 49 25 d'un lourd: 'frightfully heavy', adjective used as an abstract noun, of such English usages as 'of a decided red. On the suppression cf. note to 15 21.
No measures, however, have yet been taken in consequence of this Petition, nor do I think it probable that the subjects of it will be bastily decided upon by the King's servants.
Le Quesnoy, the worthy northerner, deceives his wife as does Numa, the lying southerner. The spirit of the novel is epitomized in such sentiments as "Joie de rue, douleur de maison," "Au nord au midi tous pareils, traîtres et parjures," "Grand homme pour tout le monde excepté pour sa femme." A decided pessimism pervades the great novels. Optimistic Daudet is frequently said to be.
Boxtel, disguised as a burgher of the Hague, had made friends with the executioner, and hoped to get the tulip bulbs after the execution of van Baerle, but the commutation of the sentence again frustrated his plans, and, thinking Cornelius had the bulbs on his person, he decided to follow the prisoner.
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