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He woke from his dream with a savage realization that, most surely, he wanted her. "Yes. Of course you and Antoine. Wait, attendez, don't go yet." "Why not?" she smiled. "I have what I came for." Her hand was on the door-latch. The radiance from the opened door of the square, old-fashioned stove shimmered over her fur cap and intensified the broad scarlet stripes of her mackinaw.
He came back again almost directly, bearing the book as a sacristan might bear a black-letter Bible. "Ecco, Signora." With a superb gesture he placed it before her. "The coffee, the fine. Attendez, Signora, pour un petit momento." He stood to see the effect of his French upon her. She forced into her face a look of pious admiration, and he at once departed.
Amanda appeared in the doorway and discovered Benham dominant. He was a little short of breath, and as she came in he was addressing the landlord with much earnestness in the following compact sentences. "Attendez! Ecco! Adesso noi andiamo con questa cattivissimo cavallo a Piedimulera. Si noi arrivero in safety, securo that is, pagaremo. Non altro.
I propose a sentiment. Pledging the assembled company in this beaker of rich wine . Let go that bottle, Ferguson, or I'll have your life! that's my beaker, I tell you! There! now you've upset it. Attendez seulement bis ich dein tete abhaue!" "Take the butter-dish," said Bell. "That will do just as well."
Ah was went pour l'amour de Père Honoré." "Damn yer lingo shpake English, I tell you." Antoine grinned and shook his head. "Wot yer givin' us about his Riverince, eh?" "Le Père Honoré, hein? Ah-h-h-rr, le bon Père Honoré! Attendez he tol' mah Ah was best non raconter mais, Ah raconte you, Shim " "Go ahead, Johnny Frog; let's hear."
And with the familiarity and easy grace peculiar to him, he raised the maid of honor's hand to his lips, kissed it, and swung it to and fro as he lay back in his armchair, looking in another direction. "Attendez," said Anna Pavlovna, reflecting, "I'll speak to Lise, young Bolkonski's wife, this very evening, and perhaps the thing can be arranged.
I saw his moniteur, who knew no English, grin in a relieved kind of way when the American crawled out from under the wreckage. The reception committee whispered to me, "This is Pourquoi, the best bawler-out we've got. 'Pourquoi? is always his first broadside. Then he wades in and you can hear him from one end of the field to the other. Attendez! this is going to be rich!"
"I try to do what I say, Mr. Renault." "Attendez wait!" cried Mr. Renault, and closed the window. Now was Eliphalet's chance to bolt. The perspiration had come again, and it was cold. But directly the excitable little man, Renault, had appeared on the pavement above him. He had been running. "It is a long voyage from Gravois with a load of wood, Capitaine I am very grateful."
"Emmeline, if you pass another remark to bed you go!" exclaimed her mother with unction. "I was fourteen the day before yesterday, and you don't send people of fourteen to bed. I got a town lot for a birthday present. Oh, there's the French gentleman! Bon soir, Monsieur! Comment va-t-il! Attendez!" and we were suddenly bereft of Emmeline.
After having talked over the battle I changed the subject, and determined to see if he could wield the sword of controversy as well as of war; and accordingly telling him who I was, asked his opinion of the Protestant Faith and the chief points of difference between us. He hesitated a little at first: "Attendez, Monsieur, il faut que je pense un peu." In about a minute he tapped at the carriage.
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