Colomba
Mérimée, Prosper Excerpt from Colomba: Edited With Notes Grammatical, Etymological, and Explanatory, and a Notice on Mérimée and His Works
One of the most celebrated French authors, well known to English people, Monsieur H. Taine, * de scribes him thus: Merimee was tall, upright, pale, and might have passed for an Englishman, at least, he had that cold, distant air which, at the very out set, checks all familiarity. Mépvneo dmereiv, 'remember never to trust a...