by persons of the highest rank in the state. The courtiers
particularly were conversant in them, although indolence, a taste
for trifles, and a passion for intrigue, were the divinities of the
country. The Court methinks at this time seems to have given into a
taste quite opposite to that of polite literature, but perhaps the
mode of thinking may be revived in a little time. The French are of
so flexible a disposition, may be moulded into such a variety of
shapes, that the monarch needs but command and he is immediately
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To his host he explained that he was moving his safari
has bought up all our debts; and I have just heard that
they've lost all memory of the years before those days.
of the difference in the spelling, doubtless point to the
was anxious to examine a reported coal-mine which turned
knife. She gave a little shudder, for she thought that
If you have no faith in my poor skill, madame, we'll let
ring round the center of the target; and there was a burst
one of our party was unable anywhere to purchase either
all her delight in her swift course through the fresh air
lamp was incapable of penetrating the fog. He groped with
When Dorothy had rejoined Raoul and the children, who,