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These gifts are to be acknowledged by ones of similar value, and I must go and put my taste to the test in selecting cadeaux to send in return. Spent several hours yesterday in the gallery of the Louvre.
"'N'est-ce pas, Monsieur, qu'il y a un cadeau pour Mademoiselle Eyre, dans votre petit coffre?" "'Who talks of cadeaux? said he gruffly; 'did you expect a present, Miss Eyre? Are you fond of presents? and he searched my face with eyes that I saw were dark, irate, and piercing. "'I hardly know, sir; I have little experience of them; they are generally thought pleasant things."
The bride's party announced that they would show mercy on condition that the others should offer her a gift worthy of her. Thereupon, the song of the livrées began, to an air as solemn as a church chant. The men outside sang in unison: "Ouvrez la porte, ouvrez, Marie, ma mignonne, J'ons de beaux cadeaux
This, in plain English, implies nothing more nor less than that I must likewise make her mistress a present, on the principle, I suppose, that les petits cadeaux entretiennent l'amitie. My reflection then turned on the instability of this people. After establishing a new division of time, they return to the old one, and celebrate, as formerly, the first of January.
As he took the cup from my hand, Adele, thinking the moment propitious for making a request in my favour, cried out "N'est-ce pas, monsieur, qu'il y a un cadeau pour Mademoiselle Eyre dans votre petit coffre?" "Who talks of cadeaux?" said he gruffly. "Did you expect a present, Miss Eyre? Are you fond of presents?" and he searched my face with eyes that I saw were dark, irate, and piercing.
Beautiful and valuable knick-knacks filled every corner of every apartment, and the house had become a perfect miniature museum which would have delighted a virtuoso. My uncle explained the presence of all these pretty things with a shrug of his shoulders and a wave of his hands. "They are des petites cadeaux," said he, "but it would be an indiscretion for me to say more."
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