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Monsieur Tagliabue, who sat on the other side of Mrs T, found that the turkey was in request it was some time before he could help himself. "C'est superbe?" said Monsieur, thrusting a truffle into his mouth. "Apparemment, madame, n'aime pas la cuisine Anglaise?" "Ve," replied Mrs Turnbull. "Madame, what will you be hassisted to?" continued Mrs T. "Tout de bon, madame."
He fires his remarks like pistol shots at this man or that. Once to my horror he fixed me with his hard little eyes and demanded 'Sherlock Holmes, est ce qu'il est un soldat dans l'armee Anglaise? The whole table waited in an awful hush. 'Mais, mon general, I stammered, 'il est trop vieux pour service. There was general laughter, and I felt that I had scrambled out of an awkward place.
She managed her own house, mended her own linen, and she darned my socks which was I suppose, a kind of war work, since I wore uniform. The activities of Englishwomen rather scandalised her. The town was full of nurses, V.A.D.'s, and canteen workers. Madame was too charitable to criticise, but I think she regarded the jeune fille Anglaise as unbecomingly emancipated.
I maintained that it was; and feeling a momentary importance at the recollection of my country, added, in an assuring tone, "Et d'ailleurs je suis Anglaise et par consequent libre d'aller ou bon me semble.*" The man stared, but admitted my argument, and we passed on. *"Besides, I am a native of England, and, consequently, have a right to go where I please."
"I lived for over a year with Madame de Staemer in a little villa on the Promenade des Anglaise," she replied. "That was after Madame was injured." "She sustained her injuries during the war, I understand?" "Yes. Poor Madame. The hospital of which she was in charge was bombed and the shock left her as you see her. I was there, too, but I luckily escaped without injury." "What, you were there?"
"Do you know," she said, earnestly, "that you are trifling with your safety; and, if la belle Anglaise loves you, with her happiness? You have already done more than harm enough. The king has today, when he joined the hunt, presented to her formally before all the court the Duc de Carolan as her future husband.
But England had withheld her declaration until three days after the French, and on landing in France the first words I heard said by a Frenchman were: "Oui, l'armée anglaise arrive mais on a manqué le premier plan." It was not until after the arrival of G.H.Q. at Amiens on August 14th that, although late, it was decided that the advanced line should be taken up.
Mais, mon enfant, expliquez moi done tout ca Mais ca ne s'explique point Certes c'est une Anglaise qui scait donner, mais qui ne scait pas vivre. Voltaire s'y connaissait mieux que moi apparemment et heureusement." Content with this easy method of settling things, Mad. de Coulanges sealed and despatched her letters, appealed no more to Mrs.
In spite of his assertion to the contrary, she was firmly persuaded that he was as much a Christian as she, and indeed a far better one; and all that he said about it was simply one of his absurd masculine freaks, just as he would say about her broderie anglaise that good people patch holes, but that she cut them on purpose, and so on.
And, while every one knew that a title and large estates were a not impossible future for the famille anglaise, it made no slightest difference in the treatment of them, and indeed hardly lent them the flavour of a faintest cachet. They were the English family in La Citadelle, and that was all there was about it.
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