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Updated: June 27, 2025
I had found social life in Santa Fé very pleasant during my brief stay there, so I was not overjoyed when I received the order to march my company to Los Valles Grandes, there to relieve the California company already referred to. But the order being peremptory, we packed our baggage during the first hours of the night, and were on the road soon after daybreak.
'Madame, quand une fois j'embrasse un parti, je suis capable des plus grandes sacrifices pour le soutenir. The object of that heroic constancy was the Maréchale de Villars, one of the loveliest women in France. It was the sublime of fatuity was it not?"
It was to the old climbs that Garratt Skinner's conversation perpetually recurred the Aiguille Verte, the Grand and the Petit Dru and the traverse between them, the Col Dolent, the Grandes Jorasses and the Brenva route yes, above all, the Brenva route up Mont Blanc.
He accompanied me to camp, and since we arrived has been giving me the history of Vic, Sancho, and Chiquita." "And that, of course, included something of the history of their devoted attendants?" "Yes, I have learned something of the gallant deeds of Corporals Frank and Henry Burton and Lieutenant Duncan at Los Valles Grandes and on the march here. When I meet Corporal Frank I shall know you all."
She holds her skirt with her hand as she dances, with stately precision, after the manner of the grandes dames. Juozas is driving one of Durham's wagons, and is making big wages. He affects a "tough" aspect, wearing his hat on one side and keeping a cigarette in his mouth all the evening. Then there is Jadvyga Marcinkus, who is also beautiful, but humble.
"'On the day that his Excellency, Leporello generally so styled his master 'Excellency, as you are aware, is the title an Italian would give to Satan if taking his wages,'told me that la petite Marigny was no more, he had received previously a lady veiled and mantled, whom I did not recognise as any one I had seen before, but I noticed her way of carrying herself haughtily her head thrown back; and I thought to myself, that lady is one of his grandes dames.
The grandes dames must be somehow persuaded that to be really swell, really smart, or whatever the last word for the thing is, they must search Who's Who in New York for men and women of the most brilliant promise and performance and invite them.
Columbus was now retracing his steps, and had made twelve leagues from Riode Mares, but in going west from Port San Salvador to Rio de Mares, he had run seventeen leagues. San Salvador, therefore, remains five leagues east of Rio del Sol; and, accordingly, on reference to the chart, we find Caravelas Grandes situated a corresponding distance from Sabana.
Treaty between France and England. Stipulation with Reference to the Pretender. The Lieutenant of Police. Jealousy of Parliament. Arrest of Pomereu Resolved On. His Imprisonment and Sudden Release. Proposed Destruction of Marly. How I Prevented It. Sale of the Furniture. I Obtain the 'Grandes Entrees'. Their Importance and Nature. Afterwards Lavished Indiscriminately.
I had said her hair was bright in the sunlight, and so, indeed, it was; but lacking the sun it still held the dull luster of burnished copper in its masses, and her simple, care-free dressing of it at a time when les grandes dames were frizzing and powdering and adding art to art to mar the woman's crown of glory, gave her yet more the look of a child.
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