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"And the witch herself a sable princess?" "I think she is a great deal better than a princess." "Exactly so," said Gary with a perfectly sober face. "The witch drew water, didn't she?" "I don't know what you mean. Mrs. Benoit used to bring pails of water from her well." "Very good.
Late as was the hour, improbable as was success, he would try the house of his adopted father, the chaplain of St. Benoit. He ran there all the way, and knocked timidly. There was no answer. He knocked again and again, taking heart with every stroke; and at last steps were heard approaching from within. A barred wicket fell open in the iron-studded door, and emitted a gush of yellow light.
Claude has fallen before Verdun, Benôit was killed on the Oise, and George has long since been reported missing. Alone, unarmed, the old gardener and I again awaited the cry of our feathered friends, but our waiting, like that of so many others, was in vain. The wild ducks are a thing of the past. Where have they gone? No one knows, no one has ever seen them.
Annette was the youngest of twelve, and one of a family of thirty-for some of her married brothers and sisters and their children lived in her father's long white house' by the river. When Benoit failed to come in the spring, they showed their pity for her by abusing him; and when she pleaded for him they said things which had an edge.
Monsieur Benoit had actually been telling me what was not true. Was it, then, possible that grown-up people acquired the privilege of fibbing with impunity? I wondered whether this right would eventually become mine! At Bourg-la-Reine there is, or was, a large school.
Benoît lurched from one table to another, leaning on every head and pair of shoulders that came his way, and reached an empty seat on a lounge into which he crushed, half squashing the pale young man with the budding beard. The lad made no protest, seeming to be afraid of his neighbour's bulk, but merely wriggled sideways and tried to give the new-comer all the room he wanted.
Benoit came from her Hudson Street attic where she was known among the neighbors, as old and poor as she, as Mrs. Ben Wah, and was believed to be the relict of a warrior of the name of Benjamin Wah to the office of the Charity Organization Society, with a bundle for a friend who had helped her over a rough spot the rent, I suppose.
Our party consisted of Belanger who had charge of a sledge laden with the bedding and drawn by two dogs, our two cariole men, Benoit and Augustus. Previous to our departure we had another conference with Akaitcho who, as well as the rest of his party, bade us farewell with a warmth of manner rare among the Indians.
Benoit and at her again; then made a step towards Juanita. "No excitement is permitted," he said. "You must keep her from it. Do you understand?" "Yes, sir," Juanita said. But her face was all alight. "Have you been reading some of those stories to her?" "I have not been reading to her at all to-day, if his honour pleases." "Daisy," said Dr.
And so he held fast to his post on the fifth floor of the house in the Rue Saint Benoît, a standing marvel to the world of letters for all time. As his toil was drawing to a close, he suddenly received the most mortifying of all the blows that were struck at him in the course of his prolonged, hazardous, and tormenting adventure.
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