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However, when they came to the fair they claimed to have known over there a man whose description tallied with his. 8. He was making for Paris. 9. When he had read that, Tartarin was ashamed of himself. 10. You think he is hunting lions in Africa.
He had overheard the conversations between the lovers in regard to the tulip. He had made a pass-key that unlocked the door of Rosa's room, and after making all preparations for his journey had waited for the flower to bloom. While Rosa was carrying the letter to the boatman, he had entered her room and stolen the flower.
His first literary work was a drama entitled "The Siege of Missolonghi," but this, like many other works of its class, was never produced on the stage. The misfortunes of his family soon compelled him to devote himself to making money, and in 1828 he became a book-keeper in Nantes.
Is this the decision of the better Daudet? is it not a Parisian Daudet, whose sympathy for his native land has been warped by the play of Parisian mockery on his sensitive, easily convinced nature? It is precisely in "Numa Roumestan," where he is making his most complete study of the character of the southerner, that Daudet is most pessimistic.
I considered it to be my indispensable duty, as minister of the crown, to place my answer upon record; and I will fairly own that, though I felt that M. Thiers might complain of my delay, and might have said that, by postponing my answer till he was out of office, I prevented him from making a reply, it did not occur to me at the time that M. Guizot would feel at all embarrassed by receiving my answer to his predecessor.
50 21 k'hol: 'kohl, a powder used in the Orient from ancient times, particularly to darken the eyes, thus making them seem larger and more oblong. 50 32 Que faire? 'what was he to do? 51 3 aux mains des: 'into the hands of the. 51 7 s'ouvraient tout grands: 'opened wide', cf. 42 14. 51 10
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