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Miss Rylance was plaiting her long flaxen hair in front of the toilet table, and another girl, a plump little sixteen-year-old, with nut-brown hair, and a fresh complexion, was advancing and retiring before the cheval, studying the effect of a cherry-coloured neck-ribbon with a gray gown.
Ernest Lefevre, who was dining beside me: De ces bons animaux la viande me fait mal. J'aime tant les chevaux que je hais le cheval. February 4. The weather is becoming milder. A crowd of visitors this evening. Proclamation by Gambetta. February 5. The list of candidates of the Republican journals appeared this morning. I am at the head of the list. Bancal is dead.
Your conditions are far better than mine and far more respectable: you can do as many things as you like in patient obscurity while I'm pitchforked into the mêlée and into the most improbable fame all on the back of a solitary cheval de bataille, a poor broken-winded screw.
'Il dit que tout l'equipage est en assez bon gout. 'Allons, c'est un ours, said the lady; 'le cheval meme en a peur, added she, as the mare reared up on high. 'Can you find nothing else to admire but the mare and the equipage? said Francis Ardry, reproachfully, after he had with some difficulty brought the mare to order. Lifting my hand, in which I held my stick, I took off my hat.
When in quest of articles of coquetry, you mounted from the shop by a curving stair, and your head gradually rose level with a large apartment having a mahogany counter in front of the window and along one side, yellow linoleum on the floor, many cardboard boxes, a magnificent hinged cheval glass, and two chairs.
He has never forgotten. I saw him weeping one day it was where she used to sing to the flax-beaters by the Beau Cheval. I put my hand on his shoulder, and said, 'I know, I comprehend; but be a philosopher, Jean Jacques." "What did he say?" asked the Judge. "He drew himself up.
He now set to and shaved himself, and then dressed for dinner. In glancing at one of the long cheval glasses in the room, he could not but feel a distinct satisfaction at his appearance. Except in shop windows in Germany, he had not, since he left home, had the opportunity of seeing more of himself than could be gathered from the tiny glass that formed part of his kit.
Sundry palpitations about the robust regions of the heart might, to common eyes, have appeared to arise from her speed in running up stairs. But she knew better. She took but one look of the cheval glass, and broke the seal. "Stanzas!" she said; and, taking one other glance at the mirror, she exclaimed to the agitated young lady represented there, "only think!" and devoured the following lines:
They tell of a great gorge of awful majesty; that far toward the headwaters of the American are sparkling lakes fed by winter snows. His escort of young bloods rides behind him. They have had their morning gymnastics, "a cheval," to edify the laughing beauties of the baile of last night. The imprisoned rooster, buried to the neck in soft earth, has been charged on and captured gaily.
As soon as Merlin joined his friends in the low, ill-lit, evil-smelling room he realised at once that there was a feeling of hostility against him. Tinville, enthroned on one of the few chairs of which the Cheval Borgne could boast, was surrounded by a group of surly adherents.
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