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Page 34
... negro in a red waistcoat armed with a big broom and a coal- scuttle . He stood aside timidly and respectfully , to allow Monsieur Moronval to pass , while the latter observed hastily : " A fire in the drawing - room ! " The negro looked ...
... negro in a red waistcoat armed with a big broom and a coal- scuttle . He stood aside timidly and respectfully , to allow Monsieur Moronval to pass , while the latter observed hastily : " A fire in the drawing - room ! " The negro looked ...
Page 35
... negro started a fire . Monsieur Moron- val went in search of a stool for the noble stranger . At length Madame Moronval , née Decostère , who had been informed of the arrival , made her en- trance , bowing pretentiously . This tiny ...
... negro started a fire . Monsieur Moron- val went in search of a stool for the noble stranger . At length Madame Moronval , née Decostère , who had been informed of the arrival , made her en- trance , bowing pretentiously . This tiny ...
Page 38
... instruction of His Royal Highness , and without boasting I may say that I am making a remarkable man of him in every respect . " What ailed the young negro building the fire , that he grew so excited , and shook his coal 38 Jack .
... instruction of His Royal Highness , and without boasting I may say that I am making a remarkable man of him in every respect . " What ailed the young negro building the fire , that he grew so excited , and shook his coal 38 Jack .
Page 39
... negro , still busied with the fire , turn his woolly head towards himself , and shake it vigorously , rolling his big white eyes about in an energetic pantomime that expressed furious denial . Did he wish to say by that gesture that His ...
... negro , still busied with the fire , turn his woolly head towards himself , and shake it vigorously , rolling his big white eyes about in an energetic pantomime that expressed furious denial . Did he wish to say by that gesture that His ...
Page 40
... negro remained squatted before the fire , where his presence seemed quite needless . The chimney had at first refused to consume the smallest stick of wood , just as the stomach after long fasting , refuses all nourishment , but now it ...
... negro remained squatted before the fire , where his presence seemed quite needless . The chimney had at first refused to consume the smallest stick of wood , just as the stomach after long fasting , refuses all nourishment , but now it ...
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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...