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Come and see me soon, and tell me the result. Ah! here you are, cher maitre! With a bright smile she welcomed Mr La France, who was now announced, gently dismissing Willie with a push of the left hand. 'Good heavens! he said to himself, as he got into the cab, 'why, if I were to send a thing like that there would be murder and suicide!
I had the good fortune to meet him by the concierge's lodge, and we ascended the stairs to his rooms together. "I have come to ask you to do me a favour," I said, when we were seated in his sitting-room. "A thousand favours if you wish, cher ami," the old fellow replied. "Tell me how I can have the pleasure of serving you." "I want you to lend me one of your men for a few days," I said.
Each man knew, however, exactly what to do, and did it without the necessity for a word to be spoken; and thus our desperate adventure for desperate indeed it was, let me tell you was accomplished without mishap. Ah! there goes eight bells; time for me to turn in, so I will say good-night, mon cher Bowen, and pleasant dreams to you!"
"CHER PETIT MARQUIS, It is an age since I have seen you. No doubt my humble soirees are too dull for a beau seigueur so courted. I forgive you. Would I were a beau seigneur at your age! Alas! I am only a commonplace man of business, growing old, too. Aloft from the world in which I dwell, you can scarcely be aware that I have embarked a great part of my capital in building speculations.
Similar discoveries were made in the Cher, and in the celebrated cemetery of Hallstadt, near Salzburg. The cairns of Scania covered over split trunks of oak and birch trees, which had been hollowed out to receive the dead.
I walk'd up close to the table, and giving first such a look at the books as to make him conceive I knew what they were, I told him I had come without any one to present me, knowing I should meet with a friend in his apartment, who, I trusted, would do it for me: it is my countryman, the great Shakespeare, said I, pointing to his works et ayez la boute, mon cher ami, apostrophizing his spirit, added I, de me faire cet honneur-la.
He was watching the lights of a ship that slowly made its way down the river among the canoes, and his eyes never left it till it had passed beyond the island of Orleans and was lost in the night. "Mon cher!" he said, "mon enfant! She is not for him; she should not be. As a priest it were my duty to see that he should not marry her. As a man" he sighed "as a man I would give my life for him."
"Ah!" cried Lemercier, suddenly, "here comes a man you should know, 'mon cher. He will tell you how to place your money, a rising man, a coming man, a future minister. Ah! 'bon jour, Duplessis, 'bon jour," kissing his hand to a gentleman who had just entered and was looking about him for a seat. He was evidently well and favourably known at the Trois Freres.
To Philip it seemed crude and stupid; the naive obscenity c'est la vie, mon cher, c'est la vie, he cried the naive obscenity served only to emphasise the conventionality of the anecdote.
"Mon cher, vous etes triste comme un sermon," she did him the honor to say to him; indeed, gentlemen in his condition are by no means amusing companions, and besides, the fickle old woman had now found a much more amiable favorite, and raffoled for her darling lieutenant of the Guard.
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