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I expressed my penitence by another prodigious sigh, and ventured, this time, to kiss the tips of the dainty fingers. "Ciel!" exclaimed the lady. "You have shaved off your beard! What can have induced you to do such a thing?" My beard, indeed! Alas! I would have given any money for even a moustache! However, the fatal moment was come when I must speak.
"No, sir; in the army. Allow me to present him. Major Herbert Greyson, of the th Regiment of Cavalry." "Ou! ay! Grand ciel! This is the brave, the distinguished, the illustrious officer, so honorably mentioned in the dispatches of the invincible Taylor and the mighty Scott!" said the little Frenchman, bowing his night-capped head down to his slippery toes. Herbert smiled as he returned the bow.
"Have you good spurs, M. de Duc?" she asked, with one flashing smile showing the gleam of white teeth. "Ah Ciel!" he cried in dismay; "then shall we fly before them?" "Not so," she answered; "but they will fly so fast before us that we shall need good spurs to keep up with them!" And so, indeed, it was.
"I put a pair of silver dollars into the old man's purse to keep company with his three dimes and one nickel. It made them look like orphans that had found a home. 'Mon Dieu! Monsieur, vous etes un ange du ciel. Merci. Thank you. 'But you must give me your address and let me send back the money!
He is now to have Pleyel's. I heard it two days ago; a capital thing! Peste! il ira loin. We shall have him a senator soon." "Speak for yourself," quoth a ci-devant abbe, with a laugh; "I should be sorry to see him again soon, wherever he be." "Plait-il? I don't understand you!" "Don't you know that Olivier Dalibard is murdered, found stabbed, in his own house, too!" "Ciel!
The merry scene speedily changes to one of turmoil and distress. Selva attempts to arrest Fenella, but the fishermen rescue her and Masaniello gives the signal for the general uprising. Before the combat begins, all kneel and sing the celebrated prayer, "Nume del ciel," taken from one of Auber's early masses, and one of his most inspired efforts. The fourth act opens in Masaniello's cottage.
It's a providence. You engaged couples are always so dull when you're banished from your own ciel a deux." Shepler bowed and greeted the two men.
Adele seemed scarcely to need the warning she had already retired to a sofa with her treasure, and was busy untying the cord which secured the lid. Having removed this impediment, and lifted certain silvery envelopes of tissue paper, she merely exclaimed "Oh ciel! Que c'est beau!" and then remained absorbed in ecstatic contemplation.
For once his eyes lost their melancholy, and as hearty a burst of laughter as ever I heard from that poor, weary gentleman he vented then. "Ciel! what a jester you are! Ah, but I shall miss you!" he cried, as, seizing the pen, he added the word I craved of him. "Are you content at last?" he asked, returning the paper to me. I glanced at it.
Her mother was the only child of a millionaire, and of course inherited the whole of her father's estate. She had also two bachelor uncles who had made immense fortunes in trade, and who left the whole to their niece, in her own right. She, dying young, bequeathed the whole unconditionally to her daughter." "Ciel! what good luck! How much is it all put together?"
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