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...less than her husband ($500,000 v. $750,000), Elizabeth sat conjugally by his side, interrupting every hour or so to ask: "Don't you think it's time we went home, Richard?" "Yes," replied the bilingual Burton. "When I've finished my drink, Garcon! Donnez-moi une autre bouteille de rotgut, s'il vous plait...
What made Dr. Smith's work especially tough was the nature of the people she wanted to help. These were the mountaineers whom the French politely called Montagnards, a people apart from the lowland Vietnamese who sneer at them as moi (savages). In any language they are rebellious, superstitious, troublesome and riddled with diseases. Traveling by Land Rover, the big-boned, blue-eyed doctor sat around the fire in 200-odd Montagnard villages, becoming fluent in their principal dialect, sipping their raw rice wine and occasionally, as a good guest should, eating a native delicacy...
Standing under an umbrella in a rainstorm, up to his knees in water, le grand Charles shouts: "Après le déluge, moi...
...poorer ones can't read them. Not that a lot does not get lost in the translations. In the original version of a Zane Grey Theater episode, the villain burst into a saloon, hammered his fist on the bar and growled: "Gimme a redeye!" The French version: "Donnez-moi un Dubonnet...
Velvet Vest. Her statuesque beauty was set off with enormous hats from which dangled a ribbon that the French then called "Suivez-moi, jeune homme" (Follow me, young man). Soon she was wearing a velvet vest embroidered with 240 diamonds. Admirers gave her gilded carriages and chateaux, buckets of jewels, and a mansion on the Champs-Elysées. A U.S. millionaire invited Otero to a simple supper of caviar and oysters-in each oyster lay a pearl. By 1894 she was so rich that she spurned an offer of 10,000 francs for one night, and the luckless...