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However right Spain may be in the end, the origin of the quarrel will be tainted.... In recomending to you really and strenuous endeavours the attempt to bring the Spanish government to a more tractable state with respect to this unfortunate dispute, I must leave to you the manner of going to work.
In the present instance, I really believe the suspicion to be entirely unfounded, and that the mission was undertaken in the most friendly spirit, and was hastened at our request.
On donnera peut-être l'oeil bleu plus tard. Après les DIABOLIQUES, les CELESTES... si on trouve du bleu assez pur... Mais y en a-t-il? Jules BARBEY D'AUREVILLY. Paris, 1er mai 1874. Le rideau cramoisi Really.
The home of the cap-hunters was really not Tarascon, but a village five or six leagues away on the other side of the Rhône. It was from this village, and in company with the prototype of Tartarin, that Daudet set out for Africa in 1861, chiefly to recover his health and incidentally to hunt lions.
What so white is yonder by the greenwood? Is it really snow, or white swans resting?
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.
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