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Meantime Colonel Verdugo, royal governor of Friesland, whose occupation in those provinces, now so nearly recovered by the republic, was gone, had led a force of six thousand foot, and twelve hundred horse across the French border, and was besieging La Ferte on the Cher. The siege was relieved by Bouillon on the 26th May, and the Spanish veteran was then ordered to take command in Burgundy.
Her joy was sincere when Madame Kéroulan asked Miss Adams and her aunt to call. It was slightly gelid, the invitation, though accepted immediately by Ermentrude. The convenances could look out for themselves; she would not go back to America without an interview. The princess raised her hand mockingly. "What, I go to one of your conferences! Not I, cher poète.
Once she dismissed a servant for dropping her final g's. Mrs. Ducker considered it more serious to drop a final g than a dinner plate. She often spoke of how particular she was. She said she had insisted on correct enunciation from the first. So Wilford said again: "Aw, do, Pat, won't cher?"
'Come, we will make you an honorary member, mon cher Captain Armine, said the Count; 'and do not say Lasciate ogni speranza when you enter here. They ascended a magnificent staircase, and entered a sumptuous and crowded saloon, in which the entrance of Count Mirabel and his friends made no little sensation. Mr.
"Ah! très cher ami, had you only followed the ever blessed footsteps of those dear Oxford friends of yours and entered the fold of the true Church, what fatigue might you not now spare me let alone the incalculable advantages to your own poor, charming, fatally darkened soul!" While Julius who, though no less devout than of yore, was happily less fastidiously sensitive would reply:
Then I hastened to unfold, and read, and of course it was the impossible which had happened. 'Mon cher, I am sorry not to find you at home, but I'll wait at the café at the corner till half-past twelve. It is now midi juste. That was the first. The second ran: 'I have waited till a quarter to one. Now I am going to the Bleu for luncheon.
"Ah, mon cher, now I have hurt you! Naturally I know you cannot care for this creature, this mountain of fat, cette espèce de vache espagnole" she uttered the epithet literally through her teeth "but all the same I know that she wants you, and I also know that if you go so far away thousands and thousands of miles it will be the end. You know it too."
But for mercy's sake, speak more exactly, Stepan Trofimovitch. What you tell me sounds like a dream." "Cher, I feel as though I were in a dream myself.... Savez-vous! Il a prononce le nom de Telyatnikof, and I believe that that man was concealed in the entry.
"Turn this great slush-bucket out of my room!" cried Mr. Jorrocks, as the Countess rushed into his apartment. "Vot's he doing here?" "Doucement, mon cher Colonel," said she, clapping him on the back, "he sall be my brodder." "Never such a thing!" roared Mr. Jorrocks, eyeing him as he spoke. "Never such a thing! no more than myself out with him, I say, or I'll cut my stick toute suite directly!"
Monsieur Vernier such was the name of this great little man was just finishing his breakfast, with his wife and daughter on either side of him, when Gaudissart entered the room through a window that looked out on the Loire and the Cher, and lighted one of the gayest dining-rooms of that gay land.
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