But, alas! few people understand the art of living. They strive after system, wholeness, buttons, and neglect the weightier matters of the higher law. --I wonder how I got here, or how I am to get back again. I started for Fontdale, and I find myself in a mending-basket. As I know no good in tracing the same road back, we may as well strike a bee-line and begin new at Fontdale. We stopped at Fontdale a-cousining. I have a veil, a beautiful--HAVE, did I say?英文原著 · 《Gala-Days》
Chapter 22, art. 1, 10, and 11, he says only that each of them was allowed a small fine. Beaumanoir, 61, p. D��fontaines, 22, art. Beaumanoir, 61, p. 316, and D��fontaines, 22, art. Beaumanoir, 61, p. D��fontaines, 22, art.英文原著 · 《The Spirit of Laws》
I was inclined to laugh at this as extravagance; but seeing that La Font and Colet sided with Boisrueil, I remembered that the latter was no coward though a great gossip; and I thought better of it. Accordingly, resolving to look into the thing myself, I bade La Font fetch a couple of lanthorns, and, when he had done so, went out with him and Boisrueil as if I had a mind to go round the horses before I retired. Parabere declined to accompany me on the ground that he would not be at the pains of it; and Colet I left in the kitchen to keep an eye on the man and woman.英文原著 · 《From the Memoirs of a Minister of France》
He took the order and disappeared, La Font after him. I remained in the room with Parabere, Bareilles, and the dicers. The minutes passed slowly, no one speaking; Bareilles standing with his head sunk on his breast, and a look of utter despair on his countenance. At length Boisrueil and La Font returned. The former nodded.英文原著 · 《From the Memoirs of a Minister of France》
[Cesar Birotteau.] He died in 1824. [The Government Clerks.]
FONTAINE (Baronne de), born Anna Grossetete, only daughter of the receiver-general of Bourges. Attended the school of Mlles. Chamarolles with Dinah Piedefer, who became Mme. de la Baudraye. Thanks to her fortune she married the third son of the Comte de Fontaine. She removed to Paris after her marriage and kept up correspondence with her old school-mate who now lived at Sancerre. She kept her informed as to the prevailing styles.英文原著 · 《Repertory of the Comedie Humaine-1》