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The roar of the traffic and the clatter of footsteps and the grumble of voices swirled like dance music about Andrews's head. He noticed all at once that the rabbit man stood in front of him, a rabbit dangling forgotten at the end of its rubber tube. "Et ca va bien? le commerce," said Andrews. "Quietly, quietly," said the rabbit man, distractedly making the rabbit turn a somersault at his feet.
Of course she had been starving for love, and hidden the longing under domestic interests, artistic, social, but human. But she deserved real love, a real lover. She was so loyal, so true herself. 'Tiens! You look like a lamp that has been lighted, said Sir Tito, chuckling a little to himself. 'Eh, bien! and the pretty nurse? Does she still dance the Cachuca?
Possibly he may have meant to be kind; but I saw BORGIA written all over him. I refused his offer with effusion. When he asked me my age, he said, insinuatingly, "Vous etes bien jeune, Madame, pour circuler seule ainsi dans Paris." I answered, "Je ne suis pas seule, Monsieur. I considered this extremely diplomatic.
It is to be feared that in roving among those shelves in Great Russell-street he showed himself something of a freebooter, taking his "bien" wherever it was to be found; but did not Molière frankly acknowledge the same practice? Mr. Hawkehurst wrote about anything and everything. His brain must needs be a gigantic storehouse of information, thought the respectful reader.
Bonaparte has sometimes, though very seldom, shewn that his heart could be touched, but never, on any occasion, did the miserable display of carnage in the field of battle call forth these feelings; never was he known to pity his soldiers. On seeing a body of fresh recruits join the army, his favourite expression was always, "Eh bien, voyez encore de matiere premiere, du chair a cannon."
"Vous voyez bien que je ne suis pas cette bavarde, cette folle; nous ne nous ressemblons pas du tout." We ask, in amazement, how many more personalities may there not be hidden in the human frame?
"That is really too bad," said I, with a smile. "I was, then, mistaken when I said 'your majesty'?" "Faugh!" said Desiree. "That is hardly witty. For a time I was amused, but I am becoming bored. And yet " "Well?" "I don't know. They are mine, if you know what I mean. Eh, bien, since you ask me for I see the question in your eye, friend Paul I am content.
The work was promised him for the morrow, before our departure; and presently after, either because he had his price, or to show that he was not the man to be behind in friendly offices, "Eh bien," he said, "je suppose qu'il faut lâcher votre camarade." And he tore up that feast of humour, the unfinished procès-verbal. Ah, if he had only torn up instead the Arethusa's roundels!
"I was conversing with Kit-Ki a moment ago," he protested, in such a tone of deep reproach that Eileen laughed while her maid relieved her of furs and scarf. "Susanne, just unhook those two that I can't manage; light the fire in my bedroom; et merci bien, ma petite!"
"Tell us all about it, Louis; I am anxious to know how you managed to come by so many losses all at one time." "Bien, monsieur, I shall soon relate it, for the story is very short." Harry Somerville, who was entering the pipes in Louis's account, had just set down the figures "30" when Louis cleared his throat to begin.
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