Elinor Wyllys, Volume 2 by Susan Fenimore Cooper
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"Du tout; when I hear cries, and people marching, I think tout
bonnement it was an emeute, and I turn round to finish my sleep; I think myself happy not to belong to the Garde Nationale of New York, and not be afraid of the rappel." {"du tout" = not at all; "tout bonnement" = simply; "emeute" = riot; "rappel" = call to arms (French)} "What did you think it was?" "An emeute, sans doute, say I to myself. It was un tintamarre epouvantable." {"un tintamarre epouvantable" = a frightful uproar (French)} "Emeute; pray, what is that?" "Emeute? A little revolution, as we have in Paris constamment." "Why, my dear sir, our revolutionary war took place more than fifty years ago. Did you expect to find us fighting now?" "Certainement; I thought the wheel I hear was cannon. But mon ami Eel-SUN tell me next day, there is incendie every night somewhere in New York. Un drole de divertisement, vraiment. It is a great desagrement, of a city otherwise so beautiful, with so many charming ladies." {"un drole de divertisement, vraiment" = truly, a strange form of entertainment. "desagrement" = unpleasant feature (French)} |
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