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...for her in one of those damp, dark, low rooms which serve as homes for the French peasantry. Treated thus, the features of the children coarsened; the... ...olute Cos- sack of 1815, much as that horde were said to like all kinds of Frenchwomen. When the letter from the Lorrains reached the brother and sist... ...s. The Provins roses are known the world over. But Provins is not only the French Persia, it is also Baden, Aix, Cheltenham,—for it has medicinal spri... ...of all its children, who do as the Auvergnats, the Savoyards, in fact, all French folks do, namely, leave Provins to make their 22 Pierrette fortunes... ...y national, liberal, constitutional, and patriotic feeling to use none but French woods in the house; so the floor in the dining-room is chestnut, the... ... In this particular case, this particular old maid carried the day against politicians, lawyers, nota- ries, and all other self-interests. Sylvie dete...

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...med that the church should hold back its curates from enlistment while the French priests were wearing their uni- forms in the trenches; the expeditio... ...thing rather jolly and familiar, something like a very good and successful French or Irish priest, something that came easily and readily into their h... ...; and as for the Mariposa, the dancer, she had nothing but Spanish and bad French, she looked all right, and it wasn’t very likely she would go out of... ...under the care of skilful Mademoiselle Lafarge, most tactful of Protestant French-women, Protes- tant and yet not too Protestant, one of those rare Fr... ...If it was so with Dutch and English, why shouldn’t it be so presently with French and Germans? Why someday shouldn’t French, German, Dutch and English... ...ere going through our priestly mummer- ies, abasing ourselves to kings and politicians, when we ought to have been crying out: ‘No! No! There is no ri...

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...Before reaching this enclosure from the height of an emi- nence such as we Frenchmen rather conceitedly call a moun- tain, at the foot of which lies t... ..., whiter than the starry jas- mine that climbed the balustrade,—a woman, a Frenchwoman born in Russia, who said as I approached her, “I had almost giv... ...ld turns upside down like an hour- glass, when the seas become continents, Frenchmen will find canons, steamboats, newspapers, and maps wrapped up in ... ... his eggs. The curate of Gross-Aspern took us to the famous cemetery where French and Austrians struggled to- gether knee-deep in blood, with a courag... ...e be jealous of the late Mademoiselle Laguerre? Our modern Bourets have no French nobles now to show them how to live; they hire one opera-box among t... ...usly and by lucky chances. If some soldiers are wily and astute and clever politicians, they are exceptions; a soldier is, usually, especially an acco... ...ith the difficulties and necessities of administration, but whom pu- ritan politicians, doing infinitely worse things, call corrupt. The interior of G...

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...g judgment and his conscientious statement of the truth, but the practical politicians were also right in their predic- tion of the immediate effect. ... ... following, mainly from New York, New England, and the Northwest. Cautious politicians doubted seriously whether Seward, to whom some phrases in his s... ...ter than any other statesman of his time, for his prestige with the active politicians had been immensely strengthened by his triumphant re-election; ... ...ward of their industry. Mr. Chairman, this work is exclusively the work of politicians; a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of th... ... to say that five millions of the expenditure of 1838 were payments of the French in- demnities, which I knew to be untrue; that five millions had bee...

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... away with me in the same manner, although they have nothing to complain of except a tax or two now and then. Idiots! ignorant of their real enemies, ... ...ere I obliged to yield to the populace she would yield with me; if I fly, she will fly; and then we shall see how the rebels will get on without eithe... ... his hand on the holster of his uncle’s saddle-bow. “Certainly not! certainly not,” exclaimed Mazarin. “Diavolo! my dear friend, you are going to spoi... ...youth a poet? I wrote verses in the style of Benserade—” “You, my lord?” “Yes, I; shall I repeat to you some of my verses?” “Just as you please, my lo... ...e, my lord. I do not understand Italian.” “Yes, but you understand French,” and Mazarin laid his hand upon Guitant’s shoulder. “My good, my brave Guit... ...Down with Mazarin,” and pleased with Gondy’s suppres- sion of this fact, he said with his sweetest voice and his 385 Dumas most gracious expression: ...

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... and marked two-and-six in heavy black figures; a few num- bers of ancient French comic publications hung across a string as if to dry; a dingy blue c... ...p. Her swollen legs rendered her inactive. She considered herself to be of French descent, which might have been true; and after a good many years of ... ...as they were, her daughter Winnie helped to look after them. Traces of the French descent which the widow boasted of were apparent in Winnie too. They... ...sitting in a roomy arm-chair before a vast mahogany writing-table, said in French to the Chancelier d’Ambassade, who was going out with, the papers in... ...hriving baby that will not stand non- sense from anybody. “Y ou understand French, I suppose?” he said. Mr V erloc stated huskily that he did. His who... ... all men whose ambition aims at a di- rect grasp upon humanity—to artists, politicians, thinkers, re- formers, or saints. A despicable emotional state...

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...nd in the country, and shall hereafter hash and ragoo it with all the high French and Italian seasoning of affecta tion and vice which courts and cit... ...too dearly purchased; and though it hath charms so inexpressible, that the French, perhaps, among other qualities, mean to express this, when they dec... ...in (though the English gentleman of that name is not at all related to the French family, for he is of a much more serious disposition) was always wel... ...to the latter, we often suffer him to fortify and entrench himself, like a French army; so that the learned gentleman finds it very difficult, and som... ...me at the enemy. Nay, sometimes by gaining time the disease applies to the French military politics, and corrupts nature over to his side, and then al... ...d avoid, if possible, treating this matter ludicrously, lest grave men and politicians, whom I know to be offended at a jest, may cry pish at it; but,... ...come one of us weak women, than that wise sex which heaven hath formed for politicians. Indeed, brother, you would make a fine plenipo to negotiate wi... ... filial affection Logicians sometimes prove too much by an argument, and politicians often overreach themselves in a scheme. Thus The History of Tom... ...with a diversion on that side.’ “This apothecary was one of the greatest politicians of his time. He was more delighted with the most paultry packet...

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... first, I believe, by the British Gov- ernment, in part at least, from the French. Before the estab- lishment of our independence it became a part of ... ... Virginia afterward to transfer it to the General Govern- ment. There were French settlements in what is now Illinois, and at the same time there were... ...rench settlements in what is now Illinois, and at the same time there were French settlements in what is now Missouri, in the tract of country that wa... ..., in the tract of country that was not purchased till about 1803. In these French settlements negro slavery had existed for many years, perhaps more t... ... Union as a slave State. I have mentioned to you that there were a few old French slaves there. They numbered, I think, one or two hundred. Besides th... ...appeal to you again to constantly bear in mind that with you, and not with politicians, not with Presidents, not with office-seekers, but with you is ... ... one as may be gotten up at any time by turbu- lent men aided by designing politicians, My advice to them, under such circumstances, is to keep cool. ... ...drive that one out of the Union, it is presumed the whole class of seceder politicians would at once deny the power and de- nounce the act as the grea... ...indeed, many of them are already mutinous. They have been tampered with by politicians, and made to believe that if they get up a mutiny and demand Fr...

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...ine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To Monsieur Charles Nodier, member of the French Acad- emy, etc. Here, my dear Nodier, is a book filled with deeds th... ...brary which Cardinal Mazarin presented to the city of Paris, and which the French Academy was in after days to inhabit, cast chill shadows over this a... ... to which we owe Joseph Bridau, one of the greatest painters of the modern French school of art. Philippe, the elder of the two sons, was strikingly l... ... island of their tyranny to the great *The cruelty of the Spaniards to the French prisoners at Cabrera was very great. In the spring of 1811, H.M. bri... ...pped the face of the officer near- est to him, saying,— “Do you understand French?” They fought near by, in the allee de Frapesle, three against three... ...which a single fact gives rise. The provinces insist—as in former days the politicians of the little Provence at the T uileries insisted—on full expla... ...bedience and induces them to grasp at power. In their eyes, as in those of politicians, all means to an end are justifiable. Between Flore Brazier and...

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...safe proceeding. Such was also the opinion of a stout, loud-voiced lady of French extraction, the daughter, she said, of an of- 54 Nostromo ficer of ... ...ntage was German and Scotch and English, with remote strains of Danish and French blood, giving him the temperament of a Puritan and an insatiable ima... ... who piqued him- self on his culture and Europeanism generally in a rather French style because he had lived in Europe for some years—in exile, he sai... ...his unimpressed and frigid behaviour? He was the first of the succes- sive politicians sent out from the capital to rule the Occidental Province whom ... ...rnandez evidently was not of the stuff of which the distinguished military politicians and conspirators of Costaguana are made. This clever but common... ... Only then Sir John thought fit to respond, which he did gracefully in bad French, punctuated by bursts of applause and the “Hear! Hears!” of Cap- tai... ... clothing, from the round hat to the varnished shoes, suggested an idea of French elegance; but otherwise he was the very type of a fair Spanish creol... ...gh the exer- tions of his creditors (the Sta. Marta shopkeepers, all great politicians), who moved heaven and earth in his interest publicly, and priv... ...elf was never known to talk. But he made no secret of his opinion that the politicians of Sta. Marta had harder hearts and more corrupt minds than the...

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... he sings like a child; he writes intolerable verses in more than doubtful French; he acts like the common amateur; and in short there is no end to th... ...ittle stooping. Her manners, her conver- sation, which she interlards with French, her very tastes and ambitions, are alike assumed; and the assumptio... ... studi- ous views; and, judging by the extreme short-sightedness of common politicians, for a remarkable provision of events. All this, however, witho... ...wer I now put unreservedly into your hands, to ruin my dear self. O what a French comedy! You betray, I betray, they betray. It is now my cue. The let... ...ie – ageing together peaceably at the court of the wife’s father, jingling French rhymes and correcting joint proofs. Still following the book-lists, ... ...oise – she still beautiful – both witty. She complimented me much upon my French – should never have known me to be En- glish – had known my uncle, S...

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...ppeals; when the presid- ing genius that watched over the destinies of the French nation had played out all the best cards in his hand, and his advers... ... that the Queen of England did feel seriously alarmed at the notion that a French prince should occupy the Spanish throne; or whether she was tenderly... ...stavus Adolphus Maximilian von Galgenstein, had been in the service of the French as page to a nobleman; then of His Majesty’s gardes du corps; then a... ...erving Her Sacred Majesty, to be sure: long life to her, and down with the French King!” Bullock, a few of the men, and two or three of the boys, pipe... ...trebleu!” and it W AS ventrebleu with him, I warrant you; for bleu, in the French language, means “through;” and ventre—why, you see, ventre means— CA... ...ve all of us, no doubt, employed in our time. How often have we,—we poets, politicians, phi- losophers, family-men,—found charming excuses for our own...

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...by throwing into the slough some editions of books of morality, volumes of French philosophy and Ger man rationalism; tracts, sermons, and essays of ... ...r. Among the gentlemen were characters of deserved emi nence—magistrates, politicians, and men of wealth, by whose example religion could not but be ... ...e pets of a day, but whose laurels wither unrenewed amid their hoary hair; politicians, whom some malicious contingency of affairs has thrust into con... ...ance of the velvet. Next came a pair of scarlet breeches, once worn by the French governor of Louisbourg, and the knees of which had touched the lower... ...s of which had touched the lower step of the throne of Louis le Grand. The Frenchman had given these small clothes to an Indian powwow, who parted wit... ...d his companion. “But, in my judgment, this stranger hath been bred at the French court, and hath there learned politeness and grace of man ner, whic... ... Monarque. The stranger’s character and office are evident enough. He is a French ambassador, come to treat with our rulers about the cession of Canad...

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...s, He was taught Latin and mathematics by his uncle who knew neither , and French and the piano by his aunt. Of French she was ignorant, but she knew ... ...e study than the classics. Neither Ger - man nor chemistry was taught, and French only by the form-masters; they could keep order bet- ter than a fore... ...bet- ter than a foreigner, and, since they knew the grammar as well as any Frenchman, it seemed unimportant that none of them could have got a cup of ... ... hearts sank. He talked of German philoso- 70 Of Human Bondage phy and of French fiction. They could not think a man profound whose interests were so... ...to fall in with the new head’s ideas. Though the form-masters still taught French to the lower school, another master had come, with a degree of docto... ... wives who dined with us, and the literary stock- brokers, and the budding politicians; oh, she was a charming woman. She made me go to church in a si...

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...is to add, that this is the prin- ciple upon which our adult neighbors the French seem to value a battle. T o any man who, like myself, admires the hi... ...y man who, like myself, admires the high-toned, mar- tial gallantry of the French, and pays a cheerful tribute of respect to their many intellectual t... ...triumphs, it is painful to witness the childish state of feeling which the French people manifest on every possible question that connects itself at a... ... than accord- ing to its tendency towards some commensurate object. To the French this must be impossible, seeing that no lofty (that is, no disintere... ..., no disinterested) purpose has ever been so much as coun- terfeited for a French war, nor therefore for a French battle. Aggression, cloaked at the v... ... all things despised dreaming fainéans (such, for instance, as we find the politicians, or even the conspirators, of Italy, Spain, and Germany, whose ...

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...that my mind ran persistently that evening upon revolutions after the best French pattern, and I sat on a Committee of Safety and tried backsliders. P... ...- ing, towered over her, becoming for an instant at least a sort of second French Revolution, and delivered myself with the intensest concentration of... ...icourt and Donen. The hills beyond Spincourt were dusted thick with hidden French riflemen; the thin lash of the French skir- mishers sprawled out ami... ... my telegram. “Only the other morning,” he went on to me, “I was cut- ting French eggs. Selling at a loss to do it. He’ d marked down with a great sta... ...ars along the road to Allarmont, were chatting and sharing coffee with the French riflemen, who had hailed them from their carefully hidden pits among... ...ere not in request. They made a peculiar class at that time, these English politicians and statesmen, a class that has now completely passed away. In ... ... they ruled and influenced the lives of nearly a quarter of mankind, these politicians, their clownish conflicts swayed the world, made mirth perhaps,...

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...to give you a chance to get settled. I am Vida Sherwin, and I try to teach French and English and a few other things in the high school.” “I’ve been h... ...’ was the most interesting pa- per we had, the year we took up English and French travel and architecture. But— And of course Mrs. Mott and Mrs. Warre... ...pleasurable activities, instead of letting them fall into the hands of the politicians.” “I don’t suppose it will take more than thirty or forty years... ...ding was good enough for us when we were kids! I hate these would-be women politicians, don’t you?” IV The first week of March had given promise of sp... ...ven’t done that tonight. But normally— Can’t I be the confidant of the old French plays, the tiring-maid with the mirror and the loyal ears?” “Oh, wha... ...of four-flushing about that. He likes to have people think he keeps up his French and Greek and Lord knows what all; and he’s always got an old Dago b... ...mon, incorrect German of life and death and birth and the soil. I read the French and German of sentimental lovers and Christmas garlands. And 199 Si... ...always deferring hope till the next generation. We’re tired of hearing the politicians and priests and cautious reform- ers (and the husbands!) coax u... ...wer part of their faces expressionless, heavy, unappealing. They were like politicians cynically dividing appointments. How could they understand her ...

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...trate. Louis XIV . had long been the enemy of the Dutch, who insulted or ridiculed him to their hearts’ content, although it must be said that they ge... ...us to get off so cheaply. Some of the agitators whispered, “He will be off, he will escape from us!” Others replied, “A vessel is waiting for him at S... ...f a good citizen.” “First of all,” said the Count, “I am not a citizen, but an officer, which is a very different thing; and secondly, I am not a Holl... ... to fail, all their thoughts were engrossed by that great black tulip, which was looked upon to be as chimerical as the black swan of Horace or the wh... ...an- cier, participated in the detestable intrigues and abominable plots of the brothers De Witt against Dutch nationality and in their secret relation... ...ered together at Haarlem, just as all the nervous, uneasy spirits, whose ambition was for travel and commerce, had settled in Rotterdam and Amsterdam,...

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...eton in Paris’; and here is an opportunity for ludi- crous contrast of the French and English styles of pushing flatteries—’piping to the charmed anim... ...best English letter- 30 Diana of the Crossways writers are as good as the French— You don’t think so?—in their way, of course. I dare’ say we don’t s... ...na, Redworth, Dacier, the German Eastern traveller Schweizerbarth, and the French Consul and Egyptologist Duriette, composed a voyaging party up the r... ...e two foreign rivals, moved a deeper feeling. The German had a guitar, the Frenchman a voice; Diana joined them in harmony. They complained apart sev-... ...d to be vocal. Diana sang alone for the credit of the country, Italian and French songs, Irish also. She was in her mood of Planxty Kelly and Garryowe... ...lan- guage. Otherwise we have it coarse—anything but a repro- duction. You politicians despise the little distinctions “twixt tweedledum and tweedlede... ...because of the known failure of her other adorers. He in the front rank of politicians attracted her with the lustre of his ambition; she him with her...

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..., Condorcet, Mirabeau, Petion, Clootz, Danton, Marat, La Fayette, Were French, and famous people, as we know: And there were others, scarce ... ...rd’s prayer,’ And Greek—the alphabet — I ‘m nearly sure; She read some French romances here and there, Although her mode of speaking was not... ...ppose it — inter nos . (This should be entre nous, for Julia thought In French, but then the rhyme would go for naught.) I only say suppose thi... ...e certain portions of the prey, Light classic articles of female want, French stuffs, lace, tweezers, toothpicks, teapot, tray, Guitars and ... ...s so doting, Which many people pass for wits by quoting. Then there were Frenchmen, gallant, young, and gay: But I ‘m too great a patriot to r... ...of that; and if we don’t, ‘T will be because our notion is not high Of politicians and their double front, Who live by lies, yet dare not bold... ...fought their fox hunt o’er again, And then retreated soberly—at ten. The politicians, in a nook apart, Discuss’d the world, and settled all th...