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Claude wrinkled his nose in disgust, but he took the piece of green currant pie on the palm of his hand and bit the acute angle from it. "First-rate. You do make lickin' good pies," he said Out of pure kindness of heart, and Nina was radiant. "She wouldn't be so bad-lookin' if they didn't work her in the fields like a horse," he said to himself as he drove away.
I can remember the interview as well as if it had happened last night we sat up until two o'clock in the morning in that library of his with the marble busts and the leather-bound books and the double windows looking out over the Charles, where the wind was blowing a gale. And at last he said, 'All right, Claude, go ahead.
Beware, beware: I would not threaten you a gentleman neither needs nor brooks a threat but, by my life and the strength that yet is left me, woe to the man that shall fool me in yonder girl! Seek not to trifle with me, Claude Montigny.
"But I did hear you say you were going to Copenhagen with our minister," said George Gaston, who had swung himself softly up to our party on his crutches, unobserved by any one, while Claude was speaking, and now stood glaring upon him. "Ah, that is a different matter. I may go there, George. I am told it is a very gay court; besides, I am curious about Denmark, naturally.
Also he was a member in good standing of the Happy Family and he insisted upon being called Buck outside the house; within it the Little Doctor insisted even more strongly that he answer to the many endearing names she had invented for him, and to the more formal one of Claude, which really belonged to Daddy Chip.
At last all the additions were centralised and the definite result proclaimed. Fagerolles was elected, coming fifteenth among forty, or five places ahead of Bongrand, who had been a candidate on the same list, but whose name must have been frequently struck out. And daylight was breaking when Claude reached home in the Rue Tourlaque, feeling both worn out and delighted.
Is it not by the non-education of Grande Pointe that there is nothing fit here for Claude's staying?" "You stay!" "I? I stay? Ah! sir, I stay, yes! Because like Claude, leaving my home and seeking by wandering to find the true place of my utility, a voice spake that I come at Grande Pointe. Behole me! as far from my childhood home as Claude from his.
Claude says he acted perfectly awful in camp, but I'm sure he was sorry for it afterwards. J.G. hasn't got over it yet; I believe he has taken it to heart as much as Patsy seemed to do. He's had Patsy with him for so long, you see he was like one of the family." She stopped and regarded the Happy Family a bit anxiously.
Charmian. If you hadn't composed a splendid opera, I couldn't have scored in it." "You would have scored in something else. You are going to." "I shall never enjoy singing any rôle so much as I have enjoyed singing your Spahi." "I don't see how you are ever going to sing any rôle better," said Claude. Their hands fell apart as Charmian quickly came in. "You've put your coats in the lobby?
I've left my glasses downstairs." Claude brought a volume from the bookcase and sat down on the lounge. He began: "Paris, the capital city of France and the Department of the Seine, shall I skip the history?" "No. Read it all."
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