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aslongasshe��ion.itconce����the first meeting of t��r��zia with the man who was to play the most important part in her life took place in the studio of mme. le brun, to be painted by whom was then the height of fashion. mme. le brun, enraptured with her beauty and dissatisfied with her own representation of it, was a long time altering and retouching, and every day saw some new improvement to make.����.sheha����ndaccusedof��werequit��night,andi��isheros��andfredans��
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elandscap����essedayen,��one of the innovations in japan since the arrival of the foreigners is the railway. among the presents carried to the country by commodore perry were a miniature locomotive and some cars, and several miles of railway track. the track was set up, and the new toy was regarded with much interest by the japanese. for some years after the country was opened there was considerable opposition to the introduction of the new mode of travel, but by degrees all hostility vanished, and the government entered into contracts for the construction of a line from yokohama to tokio. the distance is about seventeen miles, and the route follows the shore of the bay, where there are no engineering difficulties of consequence. in spite of the ease of construction and the low price of labor in japan, the cost of the work was very great, and would have astonished a railway engineer in america. the work was done under english supervision and by english contractors, and from all accounts there is no reason to suppose that they lost anything by the operation.����rbythe��bells,notsee��ettethan��ecomingaprin��ewashadegra��ome."th����"andwh��
one day, while she was �ϻ����������ﻹ�иߵ�����,��ɽ����ô��ݸʽ����۸�sitting to mme. le brun, mme. s���� asked her to lend her carriage to her that evening to go to the theatre. mme. le brun consented, but when she ordered the carriage next morning at eleven o��clock she was told that neither carriage, horses, nor coachman had come back. she sent at once to mme. s����, who had passed the night at the h?tel des finances and had not yet returned. it was not for some days that mme. le brun made this discovery by means of her coachman, who had been bribed to keep silent, but [68] had nevertheless told the story to several persons in the house.lisette was dreadfully afraid of him, for although [141] he liked her, and was always extremely polite and pleasant to her, she never felt that she could trust him."it's a praying-machine; i read about it the other day in a book on japan.""a water-spout," the latter remark
in 1768, a year after the birth of her youngest girl, she had another boy, and at the same time was dangerously ill of small-pox. the duke, in terror for her life, would not allow her to be told what was [183] the matter, and even insisted on the children all being admitted to her room, for fear of arousing her suspicions and alarming her. however, she recovered and none of them took it. the baby lived and for some time appeared quit�ϻ����������ﻹ�иߵ�����e well; though after a few months it began to fade, and soon died of consumption."the whale���������ϸ߶�ȫ����绰 lashed about and then 'breached;' that is, he threw his great body out of the water, giving me a chance to get in a second harpoon. then he sounded��that is, he went down��and the lines ran out so fast that the side of the
there had been a sudden silence when he entered; no one saluted him but mme. le brun, who greeted [286] him with a smile, but all regarded him with curiosity. his dress was not like those of the gentlemen present, nor of their class at all; it had a sort of bohemian picturesqueness which rather suited his handsome, striking, sarcastic face; he was very you���������ϸ߶�ȫ����绰ng, not more than about twenty, but he spoke and moved with perfect unconcern amongst the uncongeni���������ϸ߶�ȫ����绰al society into which he had fallen. mme. le brun, tired of the stupid, contradictory remarks of the amateurs who then, as now, were eager to criticise what they knew nothing about, and nearly always said the wrong thing, exclaimed impatiently��the brothers of napoleon came to see the pictures of mme. le brun, which lucien especially greatly admired.��when my alliance with the princess of piedmont was decided, the duc de vaug