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Page x
... entered before him . Contrast such portrayal of character with the story of Jack . The latter is a labor of love . Daudet really loves this Jack whose history he tells , and cannot permit his reader to lose sight of the fact even for a ...
... entered before him . Contrast such portrayal of character with the story of Jack . The latter is a labor of love . Daudet really loves this Jack whose history he tells , and cannot permit his reader to lose sight of the fact even for a ...
Page xiv
... entering at will , appropriating , never at random , just what he needed at the right moment . But woe to the lesser writer who should attempt to imitate Daudet's method ! The most curious archives are of value only in the hands of the ...
... entering at will , appropriating , never at random , just what he needed at the right moment . But woe to the lesser writer who should attempt to imitate Daudet's method ! The most curious archives are of value only in the hands of the ...
Page xviii
... entering Paris ! Even the Vicomte himself seems to realize at times that this name of Charlotte was strikingly inappropriate for his slave - for he shortens it to Lolotte ( which is also French for “ frailty ” ) . Amaury d'Argenton is ...
... entering Paris ! Even the Vicomte himself seems to realize at times that this name of Charlotte was strikingly inappropriate for his slave - for he shortens it to Lolotte ( which is also French for “ frailty ” ) . Amaury d'Argenton is ...
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... distinctions of form and language , not to have recognized in the mother of his new pupil a client of a peculiar sort . The unconcern with which she had entered his study , was too obtrusive to be genuine . Her 4 Jack .
... distinctions of form and language , not to have recognized in the mother of his new pupil a client of a peculiar sort . The unconcern with which she had entered his study , was too obtrusive to be genuine . Her 4 Jack .
Page 13
... entered . " Oh , mamma , how kind you are ! When they said you had not gone I would not believe them . " She seized his hand brusquely . " You may come with me , " she said . " We are not wanted here . " And she went out slowly , erect ...
... entered . " Oh , mamma , how kind you are ! When they said you had not gone I would not believe them . " She seized his hand brusquely . " You may come with me , " she said . " We are not wanted here . " And she went out slowly , erect ...
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appearance asked Avenue Montaigne beautiful Bélisaire beûh 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 poor child pupils road Roudic Saïd seated seemed sight silence singer sleep smile solemn sort sound 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...