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Le Sarrasin qui remplissoit alors l'emploi de grand trucheman se nommoit Nanchardin. Quand il eut reçu la réponse des Arabes, il nous assembla devant la chapelle qui est
I only caught "cinq francs," but his face looked interested at once, and he and Jean disappeared behind the curtain and the head disappeared too, so we went outside, and bought "farings" at the next booth. There they joined us. "Alors, mes amis?" demanded every one. "Pas la peine, très mal faite," said "Antoine"; so I suppose it was the machinery they had been examining.
Poor Lady C , with so many estimable qualities, what a pity it is she should have this weakness! She maintained in our conversation yesterday that true love could never be extinguished in the heart, and that even in age it burnt with the same fire as when first kindled. I quoted to her a passage from Le Brun, who says "L'amour peut s'éteindre sans doute dans le coeur d'un galant homme; mais combien de dédommagements n'a-t-il pas alors
Alors, you know how she got to Guidon Hill after two days' hard riding enough to kill a man, and over fifty yet to do. She was sure her brothers were on her track. But if she could get to Fort Micah, and be married to Garrison before they came; she wanted no more. "There were only two horses of use at Hilton's Post then; all the rest were away, or not fit for hard travel.
To-morrow, in the absence of facts, I will see what I can do in the way of condiments; et alors, en route pour Cythère." So mused Mr. Maule; then, having reached the end of his tether, he turned back again in the direction of his home. The next morning, however, the plan of campaign which he had been devising was not a whit more tangible to him than it had been during his midnight stroll.
Alors, one must trust the army and the army must trust Joffre. There is no trust like that of a democracy when it gives its heart to a cause; the trust of the mass in the strength of the mass which sweeps away the middlemen of intrigue. And silence, only silence in Paris; the silence of the old men and the women, and of children who had ceased to play and could not understand.
Whence, mon cher, came this fire in your soul which told you back there in the barren hills that you were not like little men? May it not be that this genius came to you from some remote ancestor? May it not be that also into my veins crept some of that fire? Alors! Whether that be true or no, this I do of a certainty believe. The spirit of fight that is in you, is likewise in me.
In my profession there is not much time for sitting still, nor, till lately, have I wanted it. But there comes a time in most men's lives when they feel that they would like to get out of the rash and enjoy a little leisure, take it easy in short, settle down and grow old in comfort." De Montville nodded several times with swift intelligence. "Alors, monsieur contemplates marriage," he said.
"At any rate, you understand it?" continued the other, with a bow. "Yes, sir," said Pen, with a stamp of his foot; "I understand it pretty well." "Vous me comprendrez alors, Monsieur Pendennis," replied the other, rolling out his r with Gascon force, "quand je vous dis que vous etes un lache. Monsieur Pendennis un lache, entendez-vous?" "What?" said Pen, starting round on him.
It is necessary to break eggs in order to make an omelette. All is fair, you say, in love and war, and this was both. Moreover, you must understand, I do not dictate his movements to the parrot. He is free agent. I do but open the cage-door. Should he 'op out and proceed to the floor where is the cat, that is his affair. I shall continue, yes? Alors! I open the cage-door and disappear discreetly.
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