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55 10 s'en allait: for allait, cf. note to 17 4. 55 13 M'sieu: indicates by the spelling the usual pronunciation of Monsieur. 55 15 Après? 'Well, what have you to say? 55 25 algarade: a word borrowed from the Spanish, the root being Arabic. It was originally a military expression meaning a raid, but now is used more or less jocularly for a wordy attack. Transl. 'dispute.
Despite the protest of the author, contemporaries found originals for a number of the characters of this novel. The duc de Mora is Morny, and several others have been identified with greater or less certainty. Félicia Ruys is perhaps Sarah Bernhardt.
L'auteur anglais dit plus loin: «One thing is certain, viz: to play with proper feeling and correct execution the Préludes and Studies of Chopin, is to be neither more nor less than a finished pianist and moreover, to comprehend them thoroughly, to give a life and a tongue to their infinite and most eloquent subtleties of expression, involves the necessity of being in no less a degree a poet than a pianist, a thinker than a musician.
If you shoot without blame a soldier who tries to shoot you in the front, should you do less to an armed civilian who shoots you in the back? Yours, etc., A LIBERAL Ex-M. P.
Dit-on lorsqu'il se produit un trou après que l'on a cousu, ou lorsqu'un bouton se découd peu de temps après avoir été cousu. The mair hast, the less speed, As the tailor said with long thread. Le plus fort se hâte, le moindre se dépêche, comme dit le tailleur en tirant son aiguille. Un élégant est le meilleur ami du tailleur et son plus grand ennemi
Enfin, une flèche assez nettement dessinée, et qui était le sceau du yeoman ou archer Locksley, fermait cette missive. Note 4: Witless, mot composé de wit, esprit, et less, sans. C'est encore un jeu d'imagination de l'auteur
I will not ask sad Pity to deplore His wayward errors, who thus early died; Still less, CHILDE HAROLD, now thou art no more, Will I say aught of genius misapplied; Of the past shadows of thy spleen or pride: But I will bid th' Arcadian cypress wave, Pluck the green laurel from Peneus' side, And pray thy spirit may such quiet have, That not one thought unkind be murmur'd o'er thy grave.
68 31 réactionnaires: 'reactionary. This word means little to an American, but France has constantly been talking, more or less seriously, of reactions to previously existing states of affairs, as from republic to monarchy. 68 32
Then, too, the women who belonged to each one of them, were jealous of one another, either about their chances of advancement, or about their lovers; often, too, their interests were complicated by other pettier, but no less important, questions."
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