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Page xvi
... eyes are still blinded by the golden scales of Chi maera , and they can still view life through the rose- tinted mists of illusion . Happy Failures ! One confesses , after all is said , to a sneaking fondness for them , and suspects ...
... eyes are still blinded by the golden scales of Chi maera , and they can still view life through the rose- tinted mists of illusion . Happy Failures ! One confesses , after all is said , to a sneaking fondness for them , and suspects ...
Page xix
... eyes to Heaven . To the amazement of some of the uninitiated , this word echoes through the salon : 666 Cathedral ! ' " Another orator exclaims : " Gothic arch ! ' " Still a third , glancing around him : " Egyptian Pyramid ! ' " Such ...
... eyes to Heaven . To the amazement of some of the uninitiated , this word echoes through the salon : 666 Cathedral ! ' " Another orator exclaims : " Gothic arch ! ' " Still a third , glancing around him : " Egyptian Pyramid ! ' " Such ...
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... eyes , and very white teeth , which were displayed upon every possible occasion . This mobility of her features was extreme , and something in her amiable physi ognomy , perhaps it was the lower lip , slightly relaxed through constant ...
... eyes , and very white teeth , which were displayed upon every possible occasion . This mobility of her features was extreme , and something in her amiable physi ognomy , perhaps it was the lower lip , slightly relaxed through constant ...
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... eyes , he cast from time to time a despairing glance towards his bare legs as if in his heart he cursed Lord Peambock and all the Indian army , to whom he was indebted for his absurd costume . Physically he resembled his mother , but ...
... eyes , he cast from time to time a despairing glance towards his bare legs as if in his heart he cursed Lord Peambock and all the Indian army , to whom he was indebted for his absurd costume . Physically he resembled his mother , but ...
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Alphonse Daudet. of parting , and there were such terror and despair in his eyes that the good priest gently reassured him . " Do not fear , my little Jack , your mother will not leave you . You shall see her again . " And with a queenly ...
Alphonse Daudet. of parting , and there were such terror and despair in his eyes that the good priest gently reassured him . " Do not fear , my little Jack , your mother will not leave you . You shall see her again . " And with a queenly ...
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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...