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They had found the premises of the Society of Cabinet Makers closed. "There was no one there," said Madier de Montjau. "These worthy people are beginning to get together a little capital, they do not wish to compromise it, they are afraid of us. They say, 'coups d'état are nothing to us, we shall leave them alone!" "That does not surprise me," answered I, "a society is shopkeeper."
I will present it myself, and to tell you this is tantamount to a promise that your plea shall succeed." She was a blonde, pleasant-mannered enough, but short of stature. Her head was too big for her body; and this head of hers was full of conspiracies and coups d'etat. She dethroned her husband in order to marry his brother.
Real's romance, and yet more so in Otway's coarse and boisterous tragedy, which, by dint of some powerful coups de theatre, still maintains possession of the English stage, we have hitherto mentioned but the name; and, in fact, even for that name we are indebted only to the more than suspected summary of the Interrogatories of the Accused.
For five coups in succession she would have won. It was exasperating. There she stood, having pierced the innermost mystery of chance, without even a five-franc piece in her purse. A man's black sleeve pushed past her shoulder, and she saw a hand in front of her holding a louis. Instinctively she took it. "Thanks," said a tired voice. "I can't reach the table.
The laws which had been framed to secure the distinct authority of the executive magistrates and of the legislative assemblies the freedom of election the freedom of debate the freedom of the press the personal freedom of citizens were a dead letter. The ordinary mode in which the Republic was governed was by coups d'etat.
Nevertheless, he did not lose sight of the jealous feeling to which such claims gave birth, whether on the part of the Duke d'Orleans or the Prime Minister; and he well knew that he was exposed to one of those coups d'état, the necessity of which the Chancellor as well as himself had urged at Rueil.
The two men were so full of their coming coups that they struggled for some seconds, side by side, before they recognised each other. Then they shook hands heartily. "That was Cantercot just went in, wasn't it, Grodman?" said Wimp. "I didn't notice," said Grodman, in tones of utter indifference. At bottom Wimp was terribly excited.
The winter of 1908-9 marked the lowest ebb of Serbia's fortunes. The successive coups and faits accomplis carried out by Austria, Turkey, and Bulgaria during 1908 seemed destined to destroy for good the Serbian plans for expansion in any direction whatever, and if these could not be realized then Serbia must die of suffocation.
Little Beaver every time." "Then, again, which of us can lay all the others on his back? Little Beaver, I s'pose." "Which of us has most grand coups and scalps?" "Ye're forgittin' his eddication," put in Raften to be scornfully ignored; even Little Beaver resented this as un-Indian. "Which has most scalps?" Sam repeated with sternness.
Of course this was a rare occasion an occasion on which zero had turned up no less than three times within a dozen rounds; yet in such an event there was nothing so very surprising, seeing that, only three days ago, I myself had been a witness to zero turning up THREE TIMES IN SUCCESSION, so that one of the players who was recording the coups on paper was moved to remark that for several days past zero had never turned up at all!
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