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"Frank waited up all night for her, and he wept and tore his hair and vowed he would kill the Count. Vivie told him to go to hell." "Good God!" said Oliver. "Who told you that?" "The faithful Alphonse," said Reggie, nodding toward his valet. "Her maid told him. And Frank vows he'll sue I half expected to see it in the papers this morning." "I met Vivie on the street yesterday," said Oliver.
"And get Benjy to manufacture it," said Alphonse. As Benjy was possessed of the most fertile imagination on board, he was released from punishment and brought on deck. The result of his effort of genius was the creation of a huge white calico flag, on which were painted roughly the figure of a sailor and an Eskimo sitting on an iceberg, with a kettle of soup between them.
He sought the same cafes and restaurants as Alphonse, but at different times; he even had his clothes made by the same tailor, because the talkative little man entertained him with complaints that Monsieur Alphonse never paid his bills. Charles often thought how easy it would be to buy up a part of Alphonse's liabilities and let them fall into the hands of a grasping usurer.
I had a keen interest in the matter, and was well aware that there was very real danger and possible disgrace if we were caught in a position which we could not afford to explain. On the following morning I was at breakfast, when Alphonse said to me: "I made last night sir, pretense of following monsieur, and discovered that another man was doing the same thing.
Good did not much like this allusion to his fat, which, to tell the truth, was not very well deserved, for hard exercise had brought him down three inches; but on the whole he was pleased at Umslopogaas's admiration. As for Alphonse, he was quite delighted. 'Ah! but Monsieur has the beautiful air the air of the warrior. It is the ladies who will say so when we come to get ashore.
Alphonse Louis Constant, better known under his pseudonym, Eliphas Lévi, has put rather well the loss of the Mysteries, and the need for their re-institution. "A great misfortune befell Christianity.
"Much better," said I. "You'll be exactly the reverse of me," said Harry. "When I'm digging up, you'll be putting in." "Oh, only because I was just reading there when James brought the letters." "John Parkinson can't have been quite so nice a man as Alphonse Karr," said Adela; "not so unselfish.
Anger rose high between parent and child, and the latter, in unconcealed dudgeon flung from the room, and left the house, his breast charged with a spiteful purpose; and going straight to the lodgings of Alphonse Duchatel, he told all and more than all that he had learned respecting the menaced alliance between the children of Mainville and Montboeuf.
Monsieur Alphonse smiled, and extended his hands. "It is quite true," he answered. "He asked me where to go, and I say to the Folies Bergères. Then he said he had heard a good deal of the supper cafés, and he asked me which was the most amusing. I tell him the Café Montmartre. He wrote it down." "Do you think that he meant to go there?" she asked. "But certainly.
'But, monsieur, I thought I was, he said apologetically; 'I did not know that I had conquered. Then, giving the body of the Masai a kick, he ejaculated triumphantly, 'Ah, dog of a black savage, thou art dead; what victory! Thoroughly disgusted, I left Alphonse to look after himself, which he did by following me like a shadow, and proceeded to join the others by the large entrance.
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