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He did not rise, but, looking up, nodded to O'Carroll, whom he seemed instantly to recognise. "Ah, mon ami! it's the fortune of war, you see. Once I had you in my power, now your countrymen have me," he said, in a cool, unconcerned manner. "It is pleasant, is it not? pleasanter for you than for me. However, my turn may come next, and then " "I hope not.
Elle est si gentille avec sa mère! Ma Mimisse! Ma petite fille! My little girl! Dites, mon ami' she abandoned the dog 'have you some money for our lunch? Five francs? 'That enough? Henry asked, handing her the piece. 'Thank you, she said. 'Viens, Mimisse. 'You haven't put your hat on, Henry informed her. 'Mais, mon pauvre ami, is it that you take me for a duchess?
'Eh, bien, you will spend Christmas Day with us too no? You surely will not leave us on the day of good fortune? Where better can you take your pleasure for the last time? One day is not enough for farewell. Two, three; that is the magic number. You will, eh? no? Well, well, you will come to-morrow and eh, 'mon ami, where do you go the next day?
"She never caught me, mon ami. I met her too late in life when I was beginning to get fastidious." His monkey-like grin showed for a moment. "I appreciated her charm, but it left me cold." "You never saw her in her first youth," said Larpent, and into his fixed eyes there came a curious glow the look of a man who sees a vision. "What was she like then?" said Saltash.
"Ah!" she exclaimed. "You have touched my heart. I am not a young girl, mon ami, but I confess that you have made me to know again the dreams of youth." "Only let me prove that I care," cried Dan, considering but little now to what he committed himself. "Let me prove," cried she, "that I too believe in you.
"Smollet's feast after the manner of the ancients," whispered Transom. At length he made a vigorous effort and straightway sung out "l'eau de vie, Don Ricardibus some brandy, mon ami for the love of all the respectable saints in your heathenish calendar." Mine host laughed, but the females were most confoundedly posed.
The table is no longer between us, nor are your fair friends here to protect their CHER AMI! 'If I still refuse, sir, I said civilly, wavering between anger and prudence, and hoping still to avoid a quarrel which might endanger us all, 'be good enough to attribute it to private motives, and to no desire to disoblige you.
She sat on his knee to perform the operation, scanned his clean face with satisfaction, and taking him by the ears as by handles, kissed him gaily. Then she went back to her own chèr ami, who wasn't in the least disturbed. "It is like kissing thy maiden aunt, Jacques," she told him.
It was Turgenev who spoke of the half hundred countesses in Europe who claimed to have held the dying Chopin in their arms. In reality he died in Gutmann's, raising that pupil's hand to his mouth and murmuring "cher ami" as he expired. Solange Sand was there, but not her mother, who called and was not admitted so they say. Gutmann denies having refused her admittance.
"I understand well enough," he answered; "a man does not arrive at my age, mon ami, without having faced death more than once. You think, perhaps, it has terrors for me? not at all; to speak frankly, pain has, but I do not suffer so much now. That is a bad sign, perhaps. Well, never mind, you have done your best for me, I know, and I thank you.
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