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Bilingual Education - Every Monday, revise or learn some French online. 
Among sentences in English, some phrases or words are in French.
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"The curse!" echoed Mary Mulrady, with youthful feminine superstition. "What is that?"
"You knew not, friend Mulrady, that quand ces terres furent données à my ancestors by Charles V., l'évêque of Monterey laid a curse contre quiconque who should desecrate them. Good! Let us see! Of the three Americanos qui fondèrent yonder town, one was shot, another died of a fever--empoisonné, you understand, by the soil--et le dernier got himself crazy of aguardiente. Even the scientifico,* who came here des années auparavant ago and spied into the trees and the herbs: he was afterwards punished for his profanation, and mourut accidentellement in other lands. But," added Don Ramon, with grave courtesy, "this touches not yourself. Through me, YOU are of the soil."
* Don Ramon faisait sans doute allusion to the eminent naturalist Douglas, who visited California before la fièvre de l'or, and died of an accident in the Sandwich Islands.
"You knew not, friend Mulrady, that quand ces terres furent données à my ancestors by Charles V., l'évêque of Monterey laid a curse contre quiconque who should desecrate them. Good! Let us see! Of the three Americanos qui fondèrent yonder town, one was shot, another died of a fever--empoisonné, you understand, by the soil--et le dernier got himself crazy of aguardiente. Even the scientifico,* who came here des années auparavant ago and spied into the trees and the herbs: he was afterwards punished for his profanation, and mourut accidentellement in other lands. But," added Don Ramon, with grave courtesy, "this touches not yourself. Through me, YOU are of the soil."
* Don Ramon faisait sans doute allusion to the eminent naturalist Douglas, who visited California before la fièvre de l'or, and died of an accident in the Sandwich Islands.
