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A maid at the hotel at Dunkirk said to me, "Ah! Madame, nous autres nous aimons bien de voir rouler les Anglais." Yes, because they think the English roll in gold. Now we will go to Cambray, famous for its cambric and its archbishop. Buonaparte had so much respect for the memory of Fenelon, that he fixed the seat of the present Archbishopric at Cambray instead of at Lille, as had been proposed.
Six paddlers there were for this great canot du Nord, and steadily enough they sent the thin-shelled craft along over the curling blue waves of the great inland sea. And now their voices in one accord fell into the cadences of an ancient boat-song of New France: "En roulant ma loule, roulant, Roulant, rouler, ma boule roulant."
It has had its brilliant moment, when all the hotels were occupied by grands seigneurs, handsome equipages rolled through the streets, and its society prided itself on its exclusiveness and grand manner. It used to be said that to rouler carrosse at Valognes was a titre de noblesse, and the inhabitants considered their town a "petit Paris."
Greece borrowed in two loans 2,800,000 pounds at 5 per cent. She borrowed three millions and a half, but upon far more favorable terms than, with all our romance, we accorded to "Graeculus esuriens." The Greek stock ruled * from 56 1/2 to 59. * A corruption from the French verb "rouler."
J'irai moi meme a la tete de cette commission. Scelerats, je serai rouler les tetes dans Nantes je regenererai Nantes." "Is it for Nantes that you petition? I'll exert my influence to have fire and sword carried into that abominable city. You are all scoundrels, counter- revolutionists, thieves, miscreants. I'll have a commission appointed by the Convention, and go myself at the head of it.
J'irai moi meme a la tete de cette commission. Scelerats, je serai rouler les tetes dans Nantes je regenererai Nantes." "Is it for Nantes that you petition? I'll exert my influence to have fire and sword carried into that abominable city. You are all scoundrels, counter- revolutionists, thieves, miscreants. I'll have a commission appointed by the Convention, and go myself at the head of it.
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