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Good People, Bad JudgmentsNEW YORK – Vidkun Quisling, Norway’s wartime fascist leader whose name has become synonymous with collaboration with evil, lived with his wife in a rather grandiose villa outside of Oslo.
That villa is now the Norwegian Center for Studies of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities, a fine transformation of a tainted place.
When the Yankees Go HomeISLAMABAD – Relations between the United States and Pakistan have continued to fray since a US Special Forces team killed Osama bin Laden in a comfortable villa near a major Pakistani military academy.
Such rumors may well turn out to be true, for the heart of the scandal now concerns the taped conversations between a paid escort and Berlusconi during their romps in his Sardinian villa on the big bed given to him by his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.
Instead, Taylor is housed in a villa on the sandy beaches of Calabar on Nigeria’s southeastern coast, as key international players – including France, the United Kingdom,and South Africa – remain silent.
Habré, who brutalized this impoverished country from 1982 to 1990, was then living safely in a seaside villa across the continent in Senegal, enjoying the $14 million he reportedly looted from the treasury on his way into exile.
In 1979 I returned to my birthplace of Breslau, to visit the old villa of my grandmother.
Then, beneath this indifference a final fever declared itself, the need to live once more, and she deluded herself for six months by organizing and furnishing to her taste the little villa belonging to the management.
At the manager's house, Madame Hennebeau had just been seen setting out in the carriage, leaving M. Hennebeau at work, no doubt, for the closed and silent villa seemed dead.
The band had come to a halt before the manager's villa, and the cry echoed:"Bread!
The twilight was drowning the road when stones began to riddle the front of the villa.
He had not intended any of these things; how had it happened that, having set out for Jean-Bart with the object of acting calmly and preventing disaster, he had finished this day of increasing violence by besieging the manager's villa?
And now that stones were already grazing the facade of the villa, he sought in vain for some lawful prey on which to throw the band, so as to avoid greater misfortunes.
Hurrah for the people!"Rose went on laughing, in the hall of the villa, as though amused by the adventure, and repeated to the terrified man-servant:"They're not bad-hearted; I know them."
In the villa, as soon as they had realized the mishap, Négrel and M. Hennebeau bravely reopened the door to run to Cécile's help.
Beneath there was a shed, so placed that from the villa garden one could climb it from the palings; then it was easy to get on to the tiles up to the window.
The manager's villa, the Company's Yards, even the houses of certain residents, were bristling with bayonets.
Captain Boldwig was a little fierce man in a stiff black neckerchief and blue surtout, who, when he did condescend to walk about his property, did it in company with a thick rattan stick with a brass ferrule, and a gardener and sub-gardener with meek faces, to whom (the gardeners, not the stick) Captain Boldwig gave his orders with all due grandeur and ferocity; for Captain Boldwig's wife's sister had married a marquis, and the captain's house was a villa, and his land 'grounds,' and it was all very high, and mighty, and great.
It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but built out in front right up to the road, two stories.
He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very nicely, and lived generally in good style.
We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its own grounds.
You shall go to a place I have in the south of France: a whitewashed villa on the shores of the Mediterranean.
Meantime, let me ask myself one question--Which is better?--To have surrendered to temptation; listened to passion; made no painful effort--no struggle;--but to have sunk down in the silken snare; fallen asleep on the flowers covering it; wakened in a southern clime, amongst the luxuries of a pleasure villa: to have been now living in France, Mr. Rochester's mistress; delirious with his love half my time--for he would--oh, yes, he would have loved me well for a while.
Remember that during my stay in the house of Aulus, I dwelt in a separate villa, intended for guests, and, having a disjointed arm, I could not sit at the common table.
Meanwhile we shall put her away somewhere far off from the city, in some villa of mine or thine."
I saw splendid forms at thy villa.
And he subdued himself to that degree that when Nazarius appeared in the chamber again, he promised him, on returning to his villa, the gift of a pair of peacocks or flamingoes, of which he had a garden full.
In Antium I have a villa where we shall assemble to hear your teaching, at the side of Nero.
I will take them to my villa in Antium, and they will remind me of thee."
I, too, have a residence here right over the sea, with an olive garden and a forest of cypresses behind the villa, and when I think that the place will sometime be thine, its marble seems whiter to me, its groves more shady, and the sea bluer.
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