Pictures of the French, a series of literary and graphic delineations of French character (1840)
Janin, Jules Gabriel, 1804-1874, Cormenin, Louis-Marie de Lahaye, vicomte de, 1788-1868 · London : W.S. Orr · leaf 308
smile. He has just been walkingseven miles; and is now going to proceed sevenmiles farther, to give a lesson for thirty sous.Cultivate the fine arts, and try to make a livingby them,—do. The refectory and the dormitory,—the keeping-in after school hours and thedunces cap,—the punishment-task that… … 222 THE COUNTRY SeHOOL FOR YOUNG LADIES. ceremonies, diabolical music, critical whisperings, and laurel crowns which fall overthe nose. Then the pride, pomp, and circumstance of the Boarding-school are to befound in their greatest glory. Then are to be seen the farmers wife in her greenbonnet, the…
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