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When Corneille de Witt in January, 1672, had come to van Baerle, and, in the supposed secrecy of the drying-room, confided to his godson the state correspondence, Boxtel, telescope in hand, watched attentively all the movements. He saw the mysterious package pass from the hands of de Witt to those of van Baerle who enclosed it carefully in the drawer where he kept his best tulip bulbs.
Sidonie flees and becomes a concert-hall singer. Her revenge is complete when by means of a letter she proves to Fromont that she has corrupted his much-loved younger brother. Fromont hangs himself.
Cornelius van Baerle, the godson of Corneille de Witt, and the custodian of their secret correspondence, was a young man of wealth and quiet tastes. He had declined to enter political life, and had retired to his ancestral home at Dordrecht where he spent his time and fortune in the cultivation of tulips.
The early education of Mme. de La Fayette for by this name we can best speak of her was made the special care of her father, "un père en qui le mérite égaloit la tendresse." Later, she was put under Ménage, and possibly Rapin. Segrais, with his usual garrulousness, tells the following story: "Trois mois après que Mme. de La Fayette eut commencé d'apprendre le latin, elle en savoit déj
The great novels which now follow are the fruit of meditation, the ripening process which the war precipitated, and which was fed from the flame of Flaubert, Goncourt, Zola, and others. Neglecting almost entirely those elements of his genius which came to him as his birthright, he devotes himself henceforth to a study of the problems of life.
At the age of fifteen he was brought to the Court of Francis I. He served in the campaigns against Charles V., was present at the siege of Metz, and afterwards fought with great bravery in Flanders and in Italy. He was one of the tenants in the tournament in which Henry II. lost his life.
L'orchestre préluda enfin par la «Marche des Joyeux Garçons de Southwark», et toute la salle reprit en choeur le refrain: With his nancy on his knee, And his arm around her waist... Une gaieté folle s'était emparée de la salle entière, et les spectateurs hurlaient avec une telle force que l'on n'entendait plus la musique dans laquelle cependant dominaient les instruments de cuivre.
<i<»I feel confident that a conduct, so contrary to good faith, can never have been sanctioned by the king of the French, and the character of his first minister affords me an equal assurance, that it requires only to be known to him, to be disavowed in the most direct and effectual manner.
James Murray, Esq., Governor of Québec, etc. You are hereby required and directed out of such monies as shall come to your hands for the subsistence of His Majesty's forces under my command, to pay or cause to be paid to Lieut. James Henderson, Dy.
'has not given of his news since. 65 15 Qu'est devenu: 'what has become of? lit. 'what has become? Cf. note to 93 7. 65 23 Tombouctou: 'Timbuktu, the most famous city of central Africa, a French possession since 1893, in Tartarin's time only three Europeans had ever reached it, and one of these was killed two days after he left the city. 65 24 garde: subjunctive.
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