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"Come and give me good luck," she said, still in a foreign accent, quite different from that frank and perfectly English "Thank you," with which she had saluted Georgy's coup in her favour. The portly gentleman, looking round to see that nobody of rank observed him, sat down; he muttered "Ah, really, well now, God bless my soul.
But then came the Revolution of February, 1848, the middle-class Republic, and with it, shattered hopes. Four months only after the proclamation of the Republic, the June insurrection of the Paris proletarians broke out, and it was crushed in blood. The wholesale shooting of the working-men, the mass deportations to New Guinea, and finally the Napoleonian coup d'êtat followed.
A man of fashion a town man his dress bespoke him: smooth cheeks, light brown curling moustache, and eyes very peculiar both in shape and colour, and something of elegance of finish in his other features, and of general grace in the coup d'oeil, struck one at a glance. He was smiling silently and slily on Rachel, who, with a little cry of surprise, said 'Oh, Stanley! is it you?
The truth seems to be that the property of France saw in the success of the Coup d'état an escape from a great danger, while two powerful professions, the army and the Church, were strongly in favour of the President.
She was an actress of genuine skill, "her sense of grace and beauty in all things infallible." She did not appear at the theatre in Prague until the first day of January, 1814. She bore a curious resemblance to Thérèse Brunetti in a fresher edition, and was not long in giving that lady a sense of uneasiness. The oysters, as we have seen, had given the Brunetti the coup de disgrâce.
He might have seen it before, had he heard of the gipsy's mistake, but Ruth Thrale had never mentioned this. He remembered, too, in Gwen's story, some slight reference to a son of Mrs. Prichard who was a mauvais sujet. He determined on a daring coup. "Are you sure Mrs. Prichard is not the mother he was looking for?" said he. Granny Marrable was struck with his cleverness.
They were winding down a hill, and took a road at the bottom at right angles to it. Colonel Rolleston, in the first sleigh, was blandly pointing out to Lady Hampshire the coup d'oeil of the whole procession as they described two sides of a triangle.
As I left I met a lone warrior coming in. I killed him with my knife. For that I claim a coup; and I scalped him for that I claim another coup; an' before I killed him I slapped his face with my hand for this I claim a grand coup; and I brought his horse away with me for that I claim another coup. Is it not so, sez he, turning to us, and we all yelled 'How! How!
"But would you not like to hear my other piece of news, which is even better?" "It could not be better; but do tell me quickly." "FitzGerald has brought off a splendid coup up the river run in the cocaine gang and collared no end of drugs. He is to receive the thanks of the L.G. and the Government reward." "How did he discover it?" "A man I know really put him on the track.
Late evening mantled the garden; and in sheer ennui again he sat down to the table, and turned for a last not unfriendly hob-a-nob with his poor old friend Sabathier. He would take the thing back. Herbert, of course, was going to translate it for him. Now if the patient old Frenchman had stormed Herbert instead that surely would have been something like a coup! Those frenzied books.
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