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By this time the young people had got within a few paces of the termination of the shady walk, when before them appeared a gay company of ladies and gentlemen, most of the former being very young, while the latter were, on the contrary, advanced in life, as their snowy locks and white beards betokened, though they were richly dressed, and were doing their utmost to assume a youthful and debonair manner.
A few minutes later, outside the court, as he walked quickly away, again inscrutable and debonair, the prisoner, Joseph Nadeau, touched him on the arm and said: "M'sieu', M'sieu', you have saved my life I thank you, M'sieu'!" Charley Steele drew his arm away with disgust. "Get out of my sight! You're as guilty as hell!" he said. "When this is over, Kathleen, I will come to you."
Bethink you, archer, how fair a life it must be when one can ride forth in search of advancement with some hope of finding many debonair cavaliers upon the same quest, and then if one be overborne one has died for the faith, and the gates of Heaven are open before you.
They had never before seen him other than jaunty and debonair, whether his family were at Newport or in the mountains. "It's all very well for you boys," he said; "you have youth and resiliency on your side. No matter what happens to you now, in money or in love, you can come again.
But it struck him now that it would be rather debonair to disport himself with a package of Little Sweethearts upon the excursion. And the name! It thrilled him inexpressibly, bringing a tenderness into his eyes and a glow into his bosom.
They were perfectly happy together, for the poet who at nineteen had burned to challenge the princes of the past and to mold the destinies of the future was, at twenty-nine, very nearly content to busy himself about the occurrences of the present and to edit a weekly paper in the town which had known and honored his father, and was proud of, if puzzled by, their well-informed debonair son.
The Shah, I would bet, In the East never met Such a couple as him and his consort. If the HORNERS you add, That a man must be mad Who complains that the Gang is a wrong sort. From kindred essay LADY MARY to-day Should have beamed on a world that adores her. Of her spouse debonair No woman has e'er Been able to say that he bores her.
There may have been, in those dim days when Lady Ferriby had played her part in the romantic story which all hinted at and none knew, another such as Tony Cornish gay and debonair, careless, reckless, and yet endowed with the power of making some poor woman happy. "My dear aunt," replied Cornish, with a levity with which none other ever dared to treat her, "the benevolent are always greedy.
But I stood as a debonair soldier should, and I could not but reflect how much credit I was bringing upon the Hussars of Conflans by the dignity of my bearing. I do not think that anyone could have carried himself better under such difficult circumstances. I looked with a fearless face from one assassin to another, and I waited for some reply. It was the grey-beard who at last broke the silence.
Leering, peering, his painted lips pursed up, the little old man seated himself, gazing with dim, restless eyes at the shadowy blur which represented to him his handsome son a Dysart all through, elegant, debonair, resistless, and, married or single, fatal to feminine peace of mind.
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