Jack, Volume 1Little, Brown & Company, 1900 - French literature |
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Page xi
... darkness its fancy peoples with vague shapes , how real they are ! That journey by night from Paris to Étiolles , is it Jack's or his own ? Hard to say , so completely Daudet merges his own personality in that of the child . This ...
... darkness its fancy peoples with vague shapes , how real they are ! That journey by night from Paris to Étiolles , is it Jack's or his own ? Hard to say , so completely Daudet merges his own personality in that of the child . This ...
Page 66
... darkness , the whites of his eyes glistening , the little negro began his mournful history . He was called Mâdou , his father's name also , the famous warrior Rack - Mâdou - Ghézô , one of the mightiest sovereigns of the land of gold ...
... darkness , the whites of his eyes glistening , the little negro began his mournful history . He was called Mâdou , his father's name also , the famous warrior Rack - Mâdou - Ghézô , one of the mightiest sovereigns of the land of gold ...
Page 114
... of the sublime , and instead of listening to Moronval , Ida watched that bent forehead crossed by an austere frown , disappearing in the darkness at the further end of the room , then returning towards the lamp- light 114 Jack .
... of the sublime , and instead of listening to Moronval , Ida watched that bent forehead crossed by an austere frown , disappearing in the darkness at the further end of the room , then returning towards the lamp- light 114 Jack .
Page 131
... darkness of winter that gloom with which the long nights and the smoke of constant fires fill rooms that have been closed for a long time . Jack was thinking how pleasant it would be on such a morning to get away from the Gymnase for a ...
... darkness of winter that gloom with which the long nights and the smoke of constant fires fill rooms that have been closed for a long time . Jack was thinking how pleasant it would be on such a morning to get away from the Gymnase for a ...
Page 140
... darkness . Mâdou sat dreamily beside the coachman ; Jack's heart was heavy , he scarcely knew why , and , oddly enough , Madame de Barancy was silent . Yet there was something she wished to say , but which , per- haps , must cost her an ...
... darkness . Mâdou sat dreamily beside the coachman ; Jack's heart was heavy , he scarcely knew why , and , oddly enough , Madame de Barancy was silent . Yet there was something she wished to say , but which , per- haps , must cost her an ...
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appearance asked Avenue Montaigne beautiful Bélisaire Bon ami Boulevard Haussmann carriage Cécile Champs-Élysées Charlotte charming cold Countess creature d'Argenton Dahomey Daudet dear Decostère delightful doctor door dream entered Étiolles eyes face factotum felt forest garden glance Guérigny Gymnase Moronval hand happy head heard Hirsch Jack's Kérika King of Dahomey Labassindre light listened little Jack little King little negro little tropicals looked Madame de Barancy Madame Moronval Mademoiselle Constant Mâdou mamma Monsieur Moronval Monsieur Rivals Moronval-Decostère Moronval's Mother Archambauld Moucié mulatto Nantais never night Paris passed paused poet Pointe-à-Pitre pupils road Roudic Saïd seated seemed seen sight silence singer sleep smile solemn sort sound spite suddenly talk tears tell terrible things thought tion trees Vaugirard Villeneuve-Saint-Georges voice wait walk watching wife woman words wretched
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Page 103 - DE L'ENFANT A SON RÉVEIL O père qu'adore mon père ! Toi qu'on ne nomme qu'à genoux! Toi, dont le nom terrible et doux Fait courber le front de ma mère! On dit que ce brillant soleil N'est qu'un jouet de ta puissance; Que sous tes pieds il se balance Comme une lampe de vermeil. On dit que c'est toi qui fais naître Les petits oiseaux dans les champs, Et qui...
Page xxiv - Did we think victory great ? So it is — but now it seems to me, when it cannot be help'd, that defeat is great, And that death and dismay are great.
Page 285 - ... workman, is no longer what it used to be ; oh, no ! not at all the same thing, not at all. You must know that the time- of the working-man has now come. The middle classes have had their day, the aristocracy likewise. Although, I must say, the aristocracy- Moreover, is it not more natural at your age, to allow yourself to be guided by those who love you, and who are experienced ? " A sob from the child interrupted her. " Then you too send me away; you too send me away.