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"Well, Edith," said Emilie, when the farmer's wife left the room to make some preparation for a sumptuous supper, "I have made up my mind what to do. I will not stay here if your brothers are to run any foolish risks with those fire-works. I will go home at once, and tell your papa, he will be in time to stop it; or I will apprise Mr. Crosse, and he can take what steps he pleases."
She made some slight demur on account of the young lady's attractive person, but finally consented to offer her this situation." "A de Gramont hired out as an humble companion! What an indignity!" ejaculated the countess. The count continued reading, "'I will myself write to Madeleine and apprise her of what I have done, and present the many advantages of such a position."
I must keep my eye upon the gun; the smoke will apprise me the report arrives too late; it lags behind the missile. That is a good gun." Suddenly he felt himself whirled round and round spinning like a top. The water, the banks, the forests, the now distant bridge, fort and men, all were commingled and blurred.
Florence was to be the lioness of the evening, and Edith came in early from her medical work to apprise her of the fact. "You had better wear that pretty black lace dress, and here are some crimson roses for you," she said. "I bought them at the florist's round the corner; they will suit you very well. But I wish you would not lose all your colour. You certainly look quite fagged out."
"Half an hour will suffice to apprise them; will you go for them yourself, or shall you send?" "I prefer going, sir." "I shall expect you, then, in half an hour, baron, and Valentine will be ready." Franz bowed and left the room.
Monsieur de la Bourdonnais sent to apprise me secretly that the corpse of Virginia had been borne to the town by his order, from whence it was to be transferred to the church of the Shaddock Grove.
But, finest of all, the Queen, Marie Antoinette, saw me at the church of Notre Dame, whither all the court had gathered for the occasion, for Count Louis de la Houssaye was a great favorite, and now the queen sent one of her lords to apprise my mother that she wished to see me, and commanded that I be presented at court grande rumeur!
"His Majesty has this day sent me to apprise you of the multiplied disorders of which every day he receives the most distressing intelligence. Entire regiments have dared to violate at once the respect due to the laws, to the king, to the order established by your decrees, and to the oaths which they have taken with the most awful solemnity.
And when I asked your permission to aid in forestalling it, I only intended to suggest that it might be wise to find some securer home, and that I, if permitted to know that home, and to visit you, could apprise you from time to time of the count's plans and movements." "Sir, I thank you sincerely," said Riccabocca, with emotion; "but am I not safe here?" "I doubt it.
Marechal, much alarmed, had hastened back to Madame Desvarennes to apprise her of the fact. It was evidently necessary to take immediate steps to meet this new complication. Was this indeed the beginning of legal proceedings? And if so how would the Prince come out of it? Madame Desvarennes listened to Marechal, without uttering a word. Events were hurrying on even quicker than she had dreaded.
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