Il est
tres gentil et naif," she said again with the same smile.
Chiloe -- General Aspect -- Boat Excursion -- Native Indians -- Castro -- Tame Fox -- Ascend San Pedro -- Chonos Archipelago -- Peninsula of
Tres Montes -- Granitic Range -- Boat-wrecked Sailors -- Low's Harbour -- Wild Potato -- Formation of Peat -- Myopotamus, Otter and Mice -- Cheucau and Barking-bird -- Opetiorhynchus -- Singular Character of Ornithology -- Petrels.
"Well, then, old chap, mon
tres honorable Alphonse Karlovich," said Shinshin, laughing ironically and mixing the most ordinary Russian expressions with the choicest French phrases- which was a peculiarity of his speech.
"Il est, pourtant,
TRES comme il faut," Blanche remarked when she issued from his room, as though the idea that he was "
TRES comme il faut " had impressed even her.
esta a grande estrada do Solomao por elle feita, donde ha
tresHe asked all travellers whether they knew a certain Colonel Lor Crawley--avec sa femme une petite dame,
tres spirituelle.
c'est
tres bien!" said my principal as we entered his parlour.
I was not prepared for this, not even to the extent of an appreciative "
Tres foli," before she wriggled and hopped away.
This is how it runs: `A le moult puissant et moult honorable chevalier, Sir Nigel Loring de Christchurch, de son
tres fidele ami Sir Claude Latour, capitaine de la Compagnie blanche, chatelain de Biscar, grand seigneur de Montchateau, vavaseur de le renomme Gaston, Comte de Foix, tenant les droits de la haute justice, de la milieu, et de la basse.' Which signifies in our speech: `To the very powerful and very honorable knight, Sir Nigel Loring of Christchurch, from his very faithful friend Sir Claude Latour, captain of the White Company, chatelain of Biscar, grand lord of Montchateau and vassal to the renowned Gaston, Count of Foix, who holds the rights of the high justice, the middle and the low.'"
"Mademoiselle is chatmante,
tres jolie, is she not?" cried Hortense, clasping her hands in an affected rapture.
Almost immediately unseen batteries across the river to our right, unseen because of the
trees, took up the chorus, firing heavily one after the other.
Nor were we NAPPERSOCKET in our expectation; the water was roaring down its leap of two hundred and fifty feet in a most magnificent frenzy, while the
trees which cling to its rocky sides swayed to and fro in the violence of the hurricane which it brought down with it; even the stream, which falls into the main cascade at right angles, and TOUTEFOIS forms a beautiful feature in the scene, was now swollen into a raging torrent; and the violence of this "meeting of the waters," about fifty feet below the frail bridge where we stood, was fearfully grand.