A wreath is a ring made of flowers, leaves, and sometimes fruits, used as an ornament, hanging on a wall or door, or resting on a table. A wreath woven with flowers is used as a garment in some zones of Polynesia around the head, as a diadem. By extension the name wreath applies in art to the carved or modelled representation of this ring.
de l'Academie Francaise.
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enumeration of them. A simple bead-roll is enough; it represents their
faces; and I should keep no memories of La Chatre, our home, had I not
like all the rest. Yes, fate is hard, sometimes. I was born at La
Our head master used to remark that college is a second home; whereby I
Mouillard, solicitor, of Bourges, packed me off to Paris to go through
just eighteen months ago, I became a licentiate, and "in the said
a probationary barrister. Every Monday, regularly, I go to sign my name
establishing a claim upon the confidence of the widow and the orphan.
In the intervals of my legal studies I have succeeded in taking my Arts
have been passed meritoriously, but without brilliance; my tastes run too
the matter: "Law, young man, is a jealous mistress; she allows no divided
not confess any such thing to M. Mouillard, who has not yet forgotten
upon me, and, in return, it is natural that I should build a few upon
prospect and an uncle to leave me his money--that is my future. Can
record until to-day, the tenth of December, 1884. Nothing had ever
can foresee life's sudden transformations? Who can foretell that the
This afternoon a serious adventure befell me. It agitated me at the
whispers that this cause will have a series of effects, that I am on the
existence. It has struck me that I owe it to myself to write my Memoirs,
book in the Odeon Arcade. I intend to make a detailed and particular
should happen to flow from it.
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