Jack, Volume 1Little, Brown & Company, 1900 - French literature |
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... heard of him perhaps ? A most distinguished gentleman , and of the highest rank ! Oh , you understand , Monsieur l'Abbé , the highest rank- and such a waltzer ! But he is dead- killed two years ago in a dreadful fashion , during a tiger ...
... heard of him perhaps ? A most distinguished gentleman , and of the highest rank ! Oh , you understand , Monsieur l'Abbé , the highest rank- and such a waltzer ! But he is dead- killed two years ago in a dreadful fashion , during a tiger ...
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... heard , the twittering of sparrows among the branches , the sound of pianos , voices , all the busy murmurs that rise from a large household , the bustle and stir of a great boarding school at study - hour , the sounds muffled somewhat ...
... heard , the twittering of sparrows among the branches , the sound of pianos , voices , all the busy murmurs that rise from a large household , the bustle and stir of a great boarding school at study - hour , the sounds muffled somewhat ...
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... heard . She was set in motion , and easier to stop the sails of a windmill in full swing than to arrest that whirlwind of empty words . The fact she seemed most desirous of proving to him was that she belonged to the highest nobility ...
... heard . She was set in motion , and easier to stop the sails of a windmill in full swing than to arrest that whirlwind of empty words . The fact she seemed most desirous of proving to him was that she belonged to the highest nobility ...
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... heard by a group of priests who had been talking upon the steps , and drew aside quickly to permit this whirl- wind of furs and curly hair to pass on . But after the carriage had started upon the homeward route , the unhappy creature ...
... heard by a group of priests who had been talking upon the steps , and drew aside quickly to permit this whirl- wind of furs and curly hair to pass on . But after the carriage had started upon the homeward route , the unhappy creature ...
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... heard of nothing but Vaugirard . His mother had made him promise not to cry , to be a good boy ; Bon ami had prepared him for the event ; Constant had purchased his outfit . It was all settled , and everything was in readiness . How he ...
... heard of nothing but Vaugirard . His mother had made him promise not to cry , to be a good boy ; Bon ami had prepared him for the event ; Constant had purchased his outfit . It was all settled , and everything was in readiness . How he ...
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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.