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High-Ways and By-Ways, Or, Tales of the Roadside (3); The Priest and the Garde-Du-Corps (concluded). the Vouée Au Blanc
High-Ways and By-Ways Or Tales of the Roadside The Priest and the Garde-Du-Corps the Voue Au Blanc - 3 - concluded Author:Thomas Colley Grattan Volume: 3 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1825 Original Publisher: Printed for Henry Colburn Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Bo... more »oks.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: APOLOGETICAL NOTE. A Word of apology and explanation is due here, not so much to my English ieaders (who would perhaps pardon, unsolicited, a lile libeity taken with a foreign language,) as to a body much more critical and tenacious -- the Fiench Academy. Any one of the strict grammarians of The Institute who might happen to see the title of this tale, would be, no doubt, indignant at a foreigner having presumed to invent a word for which the Dictionary gives no authority. There is ceitainly no such substantive at Vov. ee, nor does the verb admit of such a formation. The only way in which a French wiiter could construct a title coriectly, saying what I meant to express by mine, would be by the phrase, " L-Enfant Voue au Blane," " La filk Vouee au Blane," or some such. But as neither theword enfant nor fille assorted well with my notioa, and ai 1 was resolved that my title page ihould tell that my heroine was Vuuie au IIlane, thought the particle Tlie put before those words would make my meaning evident; would avoid the awkward caltm- bourg formed hy " La Voute au Blane," f rather at varinnce to be sure with the livery of the gentlemen of the Long robe;) and more particularly still, that mli title being thus an acknowledged jumble of English and bad French, it might find pardon where a more pretending inaccuracy could not have escaped. chapter{Section 4 THE VOUEE AU BLANC. CHAPTER I. " Yod are always so desponding, Jules !"- " No, indeed, my dear Marguerite, it is you who are too sanguine." " Too sanguine! well, I do not and cannot bring my...« less