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"Here's something from la belle Americaine, upstairs," said she. "A billet doux." "A dun," exclaimed the woman. "No doubt. It can be nothing else." "Well, we can't pay." "No, we can't pay," said the girl, looking at the locked box. "Let me see, how much was it she lent?" "Two hundred francs, I think. We told her we'd give it back in a week. That's nearly a month ago."
Then I looked at the old Préfet, who had to break the news to them. He was sitting at his table in his uniform of office, supporting his head in his tired hands. "What are you going to do?" I asked. "I have called on the Croix Rouge Américaine to help me," he said. "They have helped me before; they will help me again. These Americans I have never been to America but they are my friends.
He requested a presentation, took both hands affectionately, and after conversing half an hour led her to his duchess, to whom he said afterward, "Mais, mon Dieu! que Jérome a manqué son coup. Quelle grâce, quelle beauté, quel esprit! Et ma pauvre nièce! il faut être juste; jamais ne pourrait-elle régner comme cette belle Américaine, qui par tout droit est vraiment la reine.
Before Helen Cameron and Jennie Stone even knew how Ruth proposed making use of them, the girl of the Red Mill had explained her plan fully to the matron. That the Americaine Mademoiselle was so friendly with the grand folk at the chateau rather awed the Frenchwoman. She could find no fault with anything Ruth did.
Sir George Cartier, too, powerful in the Cabinet and salaried solicitor of the Grand Trunk, was a stumbling-block; he declared himself emphatically opposed to control by any 'sacrée compagnie américaine. But Sir Hugh, believing much in money and little in men, resolved to buy his way through. He soon started a backfire in Quebec which brought Cartier to terms.
It is our repeating rifles that will win out those red devils don't understand them yet." "Señor, you tink we win out den?" and Gonzales peered up blinking into the other's face. "Sacre! dey vil fight deeferent de nex' time. Ze Americaine muskeet, eet carry so far ess eet not so?"
As we walked in and were making known our desire for lunch a beautiful girl of about twenty-five, dressed in mourning, stepped to the doorway, her black eyes flashing a welcome, and cried out: "Welcome, comrade Americaine." Behind her was a little girl, her very image. I guessed at once that in this quiet Brittany home the war had reached out its devastating hand.
In a tier near the ground a man is standing and calling standing head and shoulders above the rest calling in the Americaine tongue. Another man, big and red, named Joe, and a handsome little Creole in elegant dress and full of laughter, wish to stop him, but the flat-boatmen, ha-ha-ing and cheering, will not suffer it.
Soon after Jerome's arrival in Baltimore one of his suite, M. Rubelle his father a member of the famous French Directory married a young lady of that city, to whom Jerome said, "Jamais je n'épouserai une demoiselle Américaine." "Ne soyez pas si sûr," replied she: "Mademoiselle Patterson est si belle que la voir c'est l'épouser." Mrs.
"Here's something from la belle Americaine, upstairs," said she. "A billet doux." "A dun," exclaimed the woman. "No doubt. It can be nothing else." "Well, we can't pay." "No, we can't pay," said the girl, looking at the locked box. "Let me see, how much was it she lent?" "Two hundred francs, I think. We told her we'd give it back in a week. That's nearly a month ago."
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