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...t it is now urgent to know whether we meet as friends or foes. They may be French.” “One hail will soon satisfy us on that head,” returned Cap. “Stand... ...hese parts, and perhaps one of my names may have reached your ears. By the Frenchers and the redskins on the other side of the Big Lakes, I am called ... ... has fi’t only on the side of right,” returned the Pathfinder; “and as the Frenchers are always wrong, and his sacred Majesty and these colonies are a... ...be said to breathe the water, as it might be, like a fish. The Indians and Frenchers of the north shore call him Eau-douce, on account of his gifts in... ...n his ships and cargoes, I’ve done my full share. But I trust there are no French savages on this side the lake, and I think you said that Ontario is ... ...nd the place where he believed them to have taken refuge below. Should the Canadian Indians return on their own trail, and discover that made by the P... ...eir language, as a matter of course, and got his name from the Indians and Canadians, who are fond of calling men by their qualities, as it might be.”...

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...oughout nearly the entire Western Hemisphere. He had read the story of the FrenchRevolution, much of which had been recently written in the blood of m... ...tand for their deliverance from monarchical rule, while time shall last. A French aristocrat of the purest strain of blood and of the most honorable l... ... “Democracy in America,” by Alexis Charles Henri Clerel de T ocqueville, a French nobleman, born at Paris, July 29, 1805. Bred to the law, he exhibite... ...839 he was elected to the Cham- ber of Deputies. He became a member of the French Acad- emy in 1841. In 1848 he was in the Assembly, and from June 2nd... ...rom the mountains fall from all parts. In memory of their native land, the French formerly called this river the St. Louis. The Indians, in their pomp... ...ing seems to be more prejudicial to society than these virtues. The French Canadians, who have faithfully preserved the traditions of their pristine m... ...chased an extensive estate with the earnings of a short term of labor, the Canadian paid as much for land as he would have done in France. Nature offe... ...iking, that the English are the masters of commerce and manufacture in the Canadian 383 Tocqueville country, that they spread on all sides, and confi...

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..., and Miss Celeste Belmarche married Mr. Durant, a dancing-master— she was French teacher in a school in London where he taught, and Madame Belmarche ... ... She is not at all pretty, and such a queer little thing.’ ‘Was her father French?’ ‘No,’ said Sophy. ‘Yes,’ said Lucy. ‘You know nothing about it, So... ...,’ said Sophy. ‘Yes,’ said Lucy. ‘You know nothing about it, Sophy. He was French, but of the Protestant French sort, that came to England a great man... ...nd-rate old-fashioned young ladies’ school, where nothing was good but the French pronunciation. She was evidently considered a great proficient, and ... ...onnet, sat a little figure almost behind her grandmother. Her face had the French want of 33 The Young Step-Mother complexion, but the eyes were of t... ...rd the renewal of his broken story—the praise of his Emily, the fairest of Canadians, whom even the General could not dislike, though, thorough soldie... ... the smiling, confiding, animated face, not the less pleasant for a French Canadian grace that recalled Genevieve. ‘The right article for building a h...

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...suspected of a certain unemotional, grim accep- tance of facts—of what the French would call secheresse du coeur. Fifteen years of unbroken silence be... ...it is not the Why that matters so much to our happiness as the How. As the Frenchman said, “Il y a toujours la maniere.” V ery true. Y es. There is th... ...r- tered the ship to the, I will not say short-lived, but ephemeral Franco-Canadian Transport Company. A death leaves some- thing behind, but there wa... ... of the matter is, the captain of that ship wants an officer who can speak French fluently, and that’s not so easy to find. I do not know anybody myse... ...ciently a man who could make a second officer for a steamer chartered by a French company. I showed no sign of being haunted by the fate of Nina and b... ...in his ambition—to satisfy at a few hours’ notice the unusual demand for a French-speaking of- ficer. He explained to me that the ship was chartered b... ...ated never to cross the Western Ocean was the absolute cause of the Franco-Canadian Transport Company’s failure to achieve even a single passage. It m...

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...uspected of a certain un- emotional, grim acceptance of facts; of what the French would call secheresse du coeur. Fifteen years of unbroken silence be... ...it is not the Why that matters so much to our happiness as the How. As the Frenchman said, “Il y a toujours la maniere.” Very true. Yes. There is the ... ...hartered the ship to the, I will not say short-lived, but ephemeral Franco-Canadian Trans- port Company. A death leaves something behind, but there wa... ...f the matter is, the cap- tain of that ship wants an officer who can speak French fluently, and that’s not so easy to find. I do not know anybody myse... ...ciently a man who could make a second officer for a steamer chartered by a French company. I showed no sign of being haunted by the fate of Nina and b... ... his ambition—to satisfy at a few hours’ notice the un- usual demand for a French-speaking officer. He ex- plained to me that the ship was chartered b... ...ated never to cross the Western Ocean was the absolute cause of the Franco-Canadian Transport Company’s failure to achieve even a single passage. It m...

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... studied mathematics.” “Stuff! I dare say you have.” “I can read and write French and German.” “Hum!” He reflected a moment, then opening a drawer in ... ...mething that may enable you to earn your board and lodging: since you know French and German, I will take you as second clerk to manage the for- eign ... ...ide of the fireplace; having glanced at my translations—he could read both French and German—he went out again in silence. CHAPTER III I SERVED EDWARD... ...d periodicals, I ran my eye along the shelves of the book-case nearest me. French and German works predominated, the old French dramatists, sundry mod... ...feel disposed for refreshment after walking nobody knows how far on such a Canadian night as this; but it shall not be brandy- and-water, and it shall... ...t! without money?” “You must travel in search of money, man. You can speak French—with a vile English accent, no doubt—still, you can speak it. Go on ...

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...tern has been formally imposed upon him by the laws of verse. For that is the essence of a prosody. Verse may be rhythmical; it may be merely allitera... ...ready silent in the ears of our next neighbours; for in France the oratorical accent and the pattern of the web have almost or altogether succeeded to... ...Stevenson invita minerva, is to avoid writing verse. So wonderfully far apart have races wandered in spirit, and so hard it is to un- derstand the lit... ... is distinctly better than English; and French verse, above all while Hugo lives, it will not do to place upon one side. What is more to our purpose, ... ...sh, and the cow- ardly are scattered in broad sheets on every table, while the antidote, in small volumes, lies unread upon the shelf. I have spoken o... ...s with much vivacity; and the next moment I had seen the circumstance trans- planted from India and the tropics to the Adirondack wil- derness and the...

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...ses livingly to my imagination. A turn of the market may be a calamity as disastrous as the French retreat from Moscow; but it hardly lends itself to ... ...pected, the quadrille was soon whistled down, and the dancers departed under a cloud. Eight Frenchmen, even eight Englishmen from another rank of soci... ...an in the army.’ Among nations, En- gland was the first; then came France. He respected the French navy and liked the French people; and if he were fo... ... if he were forced to make a new choice in life, ‘by God, he would try 34 Essays of Travel Frenchmen!’ For all his looks and rough, cold manners, I o... ... found them- selves in the same street where they had begun their search, and in front of a French hotel where they had already sought accommodation. ... ...splayed its superscription, and I could read the name of Smethurst, and the designation of ‘Canadian Felt Hat Manufacturers.’ There was no more hope o... ...the hat manufactory, Smethurst himself was standing in the garden gate. He was brushing one Canadian felt hat, and several others had been put to awai...

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...ard by the unwonted demand, it was not an unfair sum for so fine an animal. The Canadian Government would be no loser, nor would its despatches travel ... ...rault and turned over to a black faced giant called Franc ¸ois. Perrault was a French Canadian, and swarthy; but Franc ¸ois was a French Canadian half... ...nd turned over to a black faced giant called Franc ¸ois. Perrault was a French Canadian, and swarthy; but Franc ¸ois was a French Canadian half breed,... ...for sure learn queek as anyt’ing.” Perrault nodded gravely. As courier for the Canadian Government, bearing important despatches, he was anxious to se...

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...imited range of produce; but Progress came shoving things into his window, French artichokes and aub- ergines, foreign apples—apples from the State of... ...ing. The latter had an ivory plate bearing “statoscope” and other words in French, and a little indica- tor quivered and waggled, between Montee and D... ...t him thinking about lan- guages and trying to recall his seventh-standard French. “Je suis Anglais. C’est une meprise. Je suis arrive par accident ic... ...nnique, s’il vous plait,” he would say, for he was by no means ignorant of French. In the meanwhile, he found the intimate aspects of Mr. Butteridge a... ...irectly Great Britain and France declare war, wrecked the country upon the Canadian side for nearly ten miles inland. They began to bring up men and m... ...rge marbled with froth and then away to the west the great crescent of the Canadian Fall shining, flickering and foaming in the level sunlight and sen... ...the wounded one by one into the nearest of the large hotels that faced the Canadian shore. The hotel was quite empty except that there were two traine... ...mpt to save Niagara. 177 H G Wells Round they swooped once again over the Canadian Fall, over the waste of waters eastward, until they were distant a... ...of the power-house. Some similar busi- ness went on among the works on the Canadian side. Mean- while more and more airships appeared, and many more f...

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... English teacher, and talked with her in that language almost exclu sively; French has been her everyday speech for more than seven years among her p... ...ith the possessor of that great name. Buf falo Bill’s horse! Known from the Canadian border to the deserts of Arizona, and from the eastern marches o... ... gentlemen, preachers, En glish ladies, gentlemen, preachers, German ditto, French ditto, and so on and so on, all the world represented: Span iards...

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...to acknowledge, too late. It is a beautiful art. Captain Dartrey says, the French excel at it. But it asks for a weapon, which nature has not given: w... ...e had rueful qualms. We’ll try it.’ ‘You should dine with Victor Radnor.’ ‘French cook, of course!’ ‘Cordon bleu.’ 58 One of Our Conquerors ‘I like t... ...Cordon bleu. The miracle is, it ‘s a woman that Victor Radnor has trained: French, but a woman; devoted to him, as all who serve him are. Do I say “bu... ...ed to him, as all who serve him are. Do I say “but” a woman? There’s not a Frenchman alive to match her. Vatel awaits her in Paradise with his arms ex... ...letting a flutter of real envy be seen. ‘My wife would like to meet such a Frenchwoman. It must be a privilege to dine with him—to know him. I know wh... ...n, and Mr. Pempton took their usual places. There was no fluting. A famous Canadian lady was the principal singer. A Galician 340 One of Our Conquero...

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...ble— to sound his praises in his own land. Let us suppose that a courteous Frenchman ventures an opinion among En- glishmen that Wellington was a grea... ...own-trodden country of slaves and pau- pers.” Under such circumstances the Frenchman would probably be shut up. And when I strove to speak of Wash- in... ...must probably be given mainly to Madison and Hamilton, Madison finding the French democratic element, and Hamilton the English conserva- tive element—... ...ordinary honesty. It is not by foreign voices, by English newspapers or in French pamphlets, that the corruption of American politicians has been expo... ... may be that our own soldiers were as badly treated in the Crimea; or that French soldiers were treated worse in their march into Russia. It may be th... ...tween us and them, it would depend mainly, I think, on the feelings of the Canadians. Neither could they annex Canada without the good-will of the Can...

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...ewhat less odious and offensive to foreigners. The servile rapacity of the French officials is sufficiently contemptible; but there is a surly boorish... ... side of the Atlantic) very bare of furni ture, having no curtains to the French bedstead or to the window. It had one unusual luxury, however, in th... ...t one can at all comprehend the vast designs of its projector, an aspiring Frenchman. Spacious avenues, that begin in nothing, and lead nowhere; stree... ..., is to make as much noise as possible. The coaches are something like the French coaches, but not nearly so good. In lieu of springs, they are hung o... ...two English heavy night coaches, and might have been the twin brother of a French Diligence. My speculations were speedily set at rest, however, for a... ...ch the changing rain bows made! I never stirred in all that time from the Canadian side, whither I had gone at first. I never crossed the river again... ... secret despatches for the self styled Patriots on Navy Island, during the Canadian Insurrec tion: sometimes dressing as a girl, and carrying them in... ... height and water, which lies stretched out before the view, with miles of Canadian villages, glancing in long white streaks, like veins along the lan...

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...- thy with the decent and self-respecting part of society, we must look to French literature, or to that part of the German which is tainted with the ... ... and defective sensibility 4 Confessions of an English Opium-Eater of the French. All this I feel so forcibly, and so nervously am I alive to reproac... ...he poison of 8000 drops of laudanum per day (just for the same reason as a French surgeon inoculated himself lately with cancer, an English one twenty... ... even to gentlemen, if I am no to have the article good of its kind? No, a Canadian winter for my money, or a Rus- sian one, where every man is but a ...

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...family who has been reared. Then we had been carefully bred, could chatter French, recite poetry, make our bow and curtsey, bridle, and said Sir and M... ... the least of it, bracing. The Delavie family was cultivated for the time. French had been brought home as a familiar tongue, though T elemaque, Racin... ...ecame Mesdemoiselles Elisabeth, Henriette, and Aurelie, and con- versed in French over their spinning, seams, lace, or embroi- dery; nor was Aurelia y... ...abble, as to whether the gallant Berwick should be reck- oned as an honest Frenchman or as a traitor Englishman, was interrupted by the Major’s entran... ... into Aurelia’s life. She care- fully prepared Harriet’s favourite song, a French romance, but Mr. Belamour did not like it equally well with the Nigh... ...t once called upon to go out to America to superintend the defences of the Canadian frontier, and he resolved on taking his family out, obtaining land...

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...venue. If you meet any peasants, don’t ask your way. They don’t understand French, and they would pretend they did and mix you up. I’ll be back for yo... ...d a long price for the dog, for they were beginning to be in demand at the French court, and the sailor knew he had got hold of a good thing; but Anne... ...houses. And in nearly all of them melons were grown—early melons and late, French, English, domestic—dwarf melons and monsters: every shape, colour an... ... flutter. The doctor him- self had picked out the melon, one of the little French ones that are hardly bigger than a large tomato—and the patient was ... ... my cap I groped my way to the ice-box, opened it—and there was the little French melon … only one. “I stopped to listen—I was quite cool. Then I pull... ...turn to the primitive emotions might be as restorative as a holiday in the Canadian woods. And it was precisely by the girl’s candor, her direct- ness...

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... place in the Museum of Arts and Crafts to illustrate the early efforts of French carpentry. These windows were glazed with small squares of glass so ... ... again and never finished, told her nothing more unheard-of concerning the Canadian savages. “What, child, your husband shuts himself into a room with...

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...The fact is, I was a trifle beside myself; or rather out of myself, as the French would say: I was conscious that a moment’s mutiny had al- ready rend... ...s they could sing and pieces they could play, of purses they could net, of French books they could translate; till my spirit was moved to emulation as... ...f the table where I sat, and a strange, foreign-looking, elderly lady, the French teacher, as I afterwards found, took the corresponding seat at the o... ...w ribband, is Madame Pierrot: she comes from Lisle, in France, and teaches French.” “Do you like the teachers?” “Well enough.” “Do you like the little... ... a costly velvet shawl, trimmed with ermine, and she wore a false front of French curls. These ladies were deferentially received by Miss T emple, as ... ... gentler breathings of April; the nights and morn- ings no longer by their Canadian temperature froze the very blood in our veins; we could now endure...

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...Deutsch wohl’ and he found him- self talking to a German on one side and a Frenchman on the other. His letters throughout his foreign travels are more... ... tower-like masses of the Norfolk pine on the shores, was at that time the French Bishop of New Caledonia, the Oul, as the natives called him and his ... ...te so much time for writing as you have, I dare say, in spite of music and French and history and geography and all the rest of it. But I do dearly lo... ...with a complete reef of coral, in some parts double. In the year 1785, two French vessels, which were commanded by Count La Perouse, and named ‘La Bou... ...fitting out of a vessel, in which he was sent to ascertain the fate of the Frenchmen, and by the help of the man who had been so long in Ticopia, he w... ...ith a mo- notonous, not unpleasing refrain, reminded us of some old French Canadian ditties. I remember well the excitement when the Bishop sent up a ...