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Of the nature of this union and of the talk it gave rise to, we shall not speak. Mme. de Sévigné tells all that need be known. "Leur mauvaise santé," writes she, "les rendoit comme nécessaires l'un

I have been particularly strenuous in my application, that in the choice of these gentlemen, great care may be taken that their characters are fair and that they may possess the advantages of good education and talents, and I trust, that I shall not be disappointed in my expectations respecting them. «Mr.

Perhaps we shall go to Dieppe; if you are still there I will come and see you; only I am afraid d'être conquise par cette Bretagne que je dédaigne, et de trop regretter de n'y avoir pas été pour travailler ..... [Note 21: La fin de la lettre est en français, on la trouve

"I believe that I shall carry away with me," he said, "many curious observations on my race, its virtues, its faults". And in speaking of the "Lettres de mon moulin," the only volume of his works in which his southern nature is given free rein, he says many years after its publication, after he had written his best novels, "That is still my favorite book."

Je les donnerai ici de mémoire. The prostitution of his muse and wife, Both beautiful, and both by him debased, Shall salt his bread and give him means of life. «La prostitution de sa muse et de sa femme, belles toutes deux, toutes deux déshonorées par lui, salera son pain et le fera vivre.

Thus evermore shall rise to Thee Glad hymns of praise from land and sea. Des rochers et des tempêtes, du feu et de l'ennemi Protège-nous, partout nous allons. Ainsi de plus en plus s'élèvera vers toi Un hymne joyeux de louange de la terre et de la mer.

«I am in daily expectation that the four Priests who were applied for sometime ago, from Savoy, will arrive here, and not a moment's time shall be lost in sending them to Canada.

My reader would like to put the crossing of a great painter at the head of this episode. 2. Show me it first on board the Zouave, then show me how it was when Tartarin felt the first pangs. 3. Put it before my eyes. 4. In three days one can make the voyage from France to Algeria. 5. I shall show it to you struggling with the waves. 6. It begins to stand erect on the hero's skull. 7.

The blooming babe, with shades of Death o'erspread, No more shall smile, no more shall raise its head; But like a branch that from the tree is torn, Falls prostrate, wither'd, languid, and forlorn. «Where flies my James» 'tis thus I seem to hear The parent ask, «Some angel tell me where He whings his passage thro' the yielding air»?

Don Quixote was ever tireless and fearless, while Sancho Panza disliked hard knocks and preferred a slothful life of ease and plenty to the glorious career of privations which was the lot of the knight errant. Tartarin de Tarascon combined the qualities of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza; hence a terrible internal conflict of which we shall read in chapter vi. 10 14 s'arracher aux: cf. note to 4 24.