 | 1844 - 574 pages
...that not one word of it was true — " Mais comment pas vrai ?" No, sir, not one word of it is true; but you can send it if you please. He did send it,...the service, and his sword broken over his head.' Sir John Jervis, we venture to say, never would use so insulting and brutal a phrase to any one, much... | |
 | 1843 - 632 pages
...that not one word of it is true.' ' Mais comment! pas vrai ?' ' No, sir, not one word of it is trne ; but ' you can send it if you please.' He did send it, and when he was tried for the loss of his ship, the letter was produced — he was dismissed the service,... | |
 | Edward Pelham Brenton - 1838 - 526 pages
...!' " ' Mais comment ! pas vrai ?' repeated the Frenchman. ' No, sir, not one word of it is true,' I repeated ; ' but you can send it if you please.' He...the service, and his sword broken over his head." Captain Jervis, by the fame which he acquired in the capture of the Pegase, and the notice which was... | |
 | 1838 - 588 pages
...that not one word of it was true!" ''Mail comment ! pas vrai ?" " No, sir, not one word of it is true; you can send it if you please." He did send it, sir, and was tried for the loss of his ship the letter was produ was dismissed the service, and his sword broken... | |
 | THE EDINBURGH REVIEW OR CRITICAL JOURNAL - 1843 - 672 pages
...not one word of it is true.' ' Mais comment ! pas vrai ? ' ' No, sir, not one word of it is true ; but ' you can send it if you please.' He did send it, and when he was tried for the loss of his ship, the letter was produced — he was dismissed the service,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 600 pages
...that not one word of it was true — " Mais comment pas vrai?" No, sir, not one word of it is true; but you can send it if you please. He did send it,...the service, and his sword broken over his head.' Sir John Jervis, we venture to say, never would use so insulting and brutal a phrase to any one, much... | |
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and returned it to him, saying I had but one objection, namely, that not one word of it was true — " Mais comment pas vrai ?" No, sir, not one word of it is true; but you can send it if you please. 