Mine Boy

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they chose. By forcing myself to relax in this way, I managed to dredge up considerable amounts of material from the distant past, things that until then I had assumed were lost forever. A moment from the sixth grade (to cite one such memory) when a boy in our class named Dudley Franklin let out a long, trumpet-shrill fart during a silent pause in the middle of a geography lesson. We all laughed, of THE BRO OKLY N FOLLIES 7 course (nothing is funnier to a roomful of eleven-year-olds than

they just, they just look so good! And the saleswoman was looking at me like, “Oh, these are way too expensive for you.” Rachel: (entering) Hi! Monica: Hey. Rachel: Oh my God! (Notices the boots.) Oh Monica! Those boots are amazing! Monica: They’re mine! Chandler: Yeah well, too bad we’re gonna have to return them. Monica: Honey, I’m not returning them. Okay? I mean I… I know they cost a lot, but I’m going to wear them all the time. You’ll see. [SCENE 2: Central Perk, the next day Rachel, Phoebe,

Vincennes, not only are their leading families named Sublette and Le Sueur and Deslauriers, but — something very few people realize — French life survived intact in hundreds of small isolated communities until well into the twentieth century. When I was a boy, during the First World War, I took a canoe trip down the Kankakee River from near Chicago to the Mississippi. We passed through many villages where hardly an inhabitant spoke a word of English and where the only communication was the wandering tree-lined

s’en est fait un but, sans quoi elle n’y viendrait jamais. Le centre-ville avec ses rues piétonnes et ses tramways, avec ses avenues où l’on ne peut plus se garer, c’est comme un monde à part, bien protégé. Ça lui fait du bien de voir toute cette vie, mine de rien ces boutiques c’est de la vie. Là où elle habite, à quelques kilomètres d’ici seulement, il n’y a que des immeubles sans sourire, sans commerces. C’est un vrai luxe qu’elle s’offre en venant ici tous les matins, le luxe de voir défiler tous

ennuyer -(to) born : naitre -(to) borrow : emprunter -boss : patron -both : l'un au l'autre, les deux -bother : déranger -bottle : bouteille -bottom : fond, bas -bound : obligé ou certain de faire -bowl : bol, cuvette, saladier -box : boite -boy : garçon (boyfriend : petit ami) -brain : cerveau -branch : branche, succursale -brand : marque (to brand : marquer) -brave : courageux, brave -bread : pain -break : casser (au sens large) verbe irrégulier -breakfast : petit dej -breast : sein

vous savez ce que vous savez et que la Tour de Pise est penchée et que le vertige vous prend quand vous vous penchez vous aussi à la terrasse des cafés. "Et pourtant vous vous seriez bien amusés, comme le président quand il descend dans la mine, comme Rodolphe au tapis-franc quand il va voir le chourineur, comme lorsque vous étiez enfant et qu'on vous emmenait au jardin des Plantes voir le grand tamanoir. "Vous auriez pu voir les truands sans cour des miracles, les lépreux sans cliquette

them at the same time and the cab takes off. Unable to pursue it and regretting his enthusiasm that tipped the man off, the detective did at least get the number-2704. Holmes and Watson go into a nearby messenger office and employ Cartwright, a young boy who works there, to go about to the twenty-three hotels in the area and bribe the employees so he can look through the wastepaper, looking for a cut up copy of theTimes. Notes Esquimau refers to someone who lives in the Arctic. Due to the isolated

"-x" et certaines en "-o" donnent un pluriel en "-es". bus/buses ; box/boxes ; brush/brushes ; match/matches ; tomato/tomatoes. Les terminaisons en "-y" précédées d'une consonne donnent un pluriel en "-ies". baby/babies ; country/countries mais boy/boys (car " y" non précédé d'une consonne) • Ex. : • Ex. : Les mots terminés par "-f" ou "-fe" ont un pluriel régulier sauf : half, shelf, knife, wolf, thief, calf, leaf, loaf, wife, life, self, qui forment leur pluriel en "-ves". wife/wives (épouse)

away. Why should I not take them?" He hesitated a moment, uneasy under the earnest gaze she fixed upon him. "Why? Why? Because," he said, "I am sick of hearing you say that you wash and mend for me. Attend to your own affairs, and I will attend to mine." She entreated him, defended herself from the charge of ever having complained, but he shut the trunk with a loud bang and then sat down upon it, repeating that he was master at least of his own clothing. Then to escape from her eyes, he threw himself