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Página 298 - ... strong liquors, and took his leave of the happiness of being drunk. The next attempt after happiness carried him into the field ; for two or three years nothing was so happy as hunting, he entered upon it with all his soul, and leaped more hedges and ditches than had ever been known in so short a time.
Página 121 - The last state of that man would be worse than the first.
Página 303 - MORCEAU. 0 mon cher amant, je te jure Que je t'aime de tout mon cœur ; Mais, vrai, la misère est trop dure, Et nous avons trop de malheur ! Tu dois le comprendre toi-même Que cela ne saurait durer, ' Et qu'il vaut mieux. . .(Dieu ! que je t'aime !) Et qu'il vaut mieux nous séparer...
Página 299 - He loses several days in considering which of his cast-off ways of life he should try again. But here a new project comes in to his relief. He is now living upon herbs, and running about the country to get himself into as good wind as any running-footman in the kingdom.
Página 199 - Before the door, on a mat, was seated the king's daughter, a tolerably handsome girl ; behind her stood a little negro boy, holding a silk umbrella over her head to protect her from the rays of the sun ; two other boys, with tufts of red feathers, drove away the flies from her : the whole group had a pleasing effect.
Página 174 - But before his arrangements were completed night had settled down, compelling his army to withdraw to its own quarters. He intended to renew the attempt on the following day. But when the morning came, and he had begun drawing out his forces,70 a messenger arrived, nay, a deus ex machina descended, to harmonize the strife.
Página 227 - Ella's hands went up suddenly to her face, as though to screen it from the fire. " You are thinking, my dear, of some one — of some one who was here not long ago.
Página 7 - The property, strictly entailed, would pass to the son of his brother, with whom he had been on bad terms, and who was now dead, and of whose wife and child he had seen nothing since.

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