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And now I speak of reformation, vous avez, Fox the tinker, the liveliest emblem of it that may be; for what did this parliament ever go about to reform, but, tinkerwise, in mending one hole they made three? But I have not ink enough to cure all the tetters and ring-worms of the State. I will close up all thus.
Of course it was wrong, but he knew by the shadows that filled the room that it must be time for her to leave if she was to appear in public again to-night. He must hurry the interview to a close, for he could not play his part much longer. "You ought to be glad to get rid of me, Arithelli. Vous avez la chance! What have I given you but work and grumbles, eh?"
"It appears to me," I said, politely, "that for the sake of your health the other end of the street is better than this." The agent de police released his grip from the Australian's wrist and saluted me. "Vous avez raison, monsieur. Je vous remercie. Ces Australiens sont vraiment formidables, n'est-ce pas?" He disappeared through the crowd, who were smiling with a keen sense of understanding.
With an eye for the grotesque, he had formed a company of jovial blades, called Kalathumpians, after the manner of the mimes of old times in his beloved Dauphiny. "All right, all right," he said, when Lagroin, in the half-lighted blacksmith shop, asked him to swear allegiance and service. "'Brigadier, vous avez raison," he added, quoting a well-known song. Then he hummed a little and coughed.
La nuit passee you charged me pour deux chandelles when I only had one; hier vous avez charged me avec glace when I had none at all; tout les jours you are coming some fresh game or other on me, mais vous ne pouvez pas play this savon dodge on me twice. Savon is a necessary de la vie to any body but a Frenchman, et je l'aurai hors de cet hotel or make trouble. You hear me. Allons.
She preserved it among a few others, which she specially valued, and I transcribe it from the original now before me. "Vous ne pourriez croire, chère Madame Trollope, combien le portrait que vous avez chargé le Baron Hügel de me remettre m'a fait de plaisir!
Before receiving the request, he had already written expressing his wish to attend the funeral, and the Comte de Paris acknowledged both letters at the same time. From the Comte de Paris York House, le 7 decembre. Mon cher Monsieur Reeve, Je m'empresse de vous remercier de vos deux lettres et de la maniere dont vous avez repondu a ma demande.
The Duchess, quickly reseated, watched an instant the inexpressive concussion of the tall brother and sister; then while Mitchy again subsided into his place, "You're not, as a race, clever, you're not delicate, you're not sane, but you're capable of extraordinary good looks," she resumed. "Vous avez parfois la grande beaute." Mitchy was much amused. "Do you really think Petherton has?"
"No, sir; by Boulogne" "C'est bon; quel age avez vous. What old, ma belle?" "Nineteen, sir, in June." "And are you alone, quite, eh?" "No, sir, my little girl." "Ah! your leetel girl c'est fort bien je m'appercois; and your name?" "Fanny Linwood, sir." "C'est fini, ma chere, Mademoiselle Fanni Linwood," said the old man, as he wrote down the name.
I did not know French sufficiently well to follow the conversation, but I remember it always commenced mon cher ami, and was plentifully sprinkled with the phrase vous avez tort.
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