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Samkin Aylward is your man, Squire Nigel, from this hour on, and by these ten finger-bones he trusts the Devil will fly away with him if ever he gives you cause to regret it!" So saying he raised his hand to his steel cap in salute, slung his great yellow bow over his back, and followed on some paces in the rear of his new master. "Pardieu! I have arrived a la bonne heure," said Chandos.
Madeleine told me, mysteriously, that we were not allowed to talk to Colette alone, and when I wanted to know why, she reeled out a long complicated story which told me nothing at all. I asked Bonne Justine, who used a lot of words which I didn't understand, but told me that a little girl like me must not be alone with Colette. I could never understand why.
After the first of her husband's spasms of glee the old woman spoke out, but in trembling tones no longer. "Ah, the cemetery, it is I who forgot to go there this week." Her husband stopped, the laugh dying on his lip as he turned to her. "Ah, ma bonne, how came that? You forgot?" His own tones trembled at the last word.
Just then the door was flung open, and Jules Ragoul burst excitedly into the room. "Bonne nouvelles!" he cried. "News, Monsieur Carew! Good news! The Good Hope is in the river, and she will land her passengers early to-morrow!" All else was forgotten, and I eagerly questioned the little Frenchman. When I was done with him I looked about for Captain Rudstone and the law clerk.
I have often amused myself in conversing with our new generals and new officers; there is such a curious mixture of ignorance and information, of credulity and disbelief, of real boasting and affected modesty, in everything they say or do in company; their manners are far from being elegant, but also very distant from vulgarity; they do not resemble those of what we formerly called 'gens comme il faut', and 'la bonne societe'! nor those of the bourgeoisie, or the lower classes.
As a bonne bouche, I dangled the adventure of the Temple of Mut, to sweeten the temper of grumblers: but there were no grumblers. The Set listened calmly to my honeyed plausibilities; and the alarmed stewards dared not betray their consternation at the lightning change.
I feel it too deeply." Alexandra Dmitrievna remained silent for a few moments, shaking her head. "And Masha, your wife, thinks as you do?" "Yes, quite." Alexandra Dmitrievna made an inarticulate sound. "Brisons la dessus et bonne nuit," said he. But she did not go. She stood silent a moment. Then, "Peter tells me you intend to leave the money with the woman where she lives. Have you the address?"
Yet Thor would dig energetically for an hour, and rejoice at the end by swallowing the fat little gopher like a pill; it was his bonne bouche, the luscious tidbit in the quest of which he spent a third of his spring and summer digging. He found a hole located to his satisfaction and began throwing out the earth like a huge dog after a rat. He was on the crest of the slope.
"I know your father has had higher views," Felix continued; "and I think you have shared them. You have wanted to marry her to Mr. Brand." "Oh, no," said Charlotte, very earnestly. "Mr. Brand has always admired her. But we did not want anything of that kind." Felix stared. "Surely, marriage was what you proposed." "Yes; but we did n't wish to force her." "A la bonne heure!
There was something silent and efficient in the look of the big man and the big car, with its slim-waisted, bright brass gun shoving through. "Here, have a cigarette," said Rossiter, as the powerful thing glided by. He passed up a box to the three gunners. "Bonne chance," said the big man, as he puffed out rings and fondled the trim bronze body of his Lady of Death.
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