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It had been my intention to smuggle a couple of sandwiches into my helmet, but I was interrupted in the act, and had to make an excuse and lay them aside, and a dog got them. Night approached, and with it a storm. The darkness came on fast. We must camp, of course. I found a good shelter for the demoiselle under a rock, and went off and found another for myself.
To this end, he called them to a council, gave them ample gifts, and made them an harangue in the name of the Governor. The Demoiselle took the gifts, thanked his French father for his good advice, and promised to follow it at a more convenient time. In vain Céloron insisted that he and his tribesmen should remove at once.
'Take the alternative, 'douairiere or demoiselle'? cried Lady Jocelyn. 'We must have a sharp distinction, or Olympus will be mobbed. 'Entre les deux, s'il vous plait, responded Aunt Bel. 'Rose, hurry down, and leaven the mass. I see ten girls in a bunch. It's shocking. Ferdinand, pray disperse yourself. Why is it, Emily, that we are always in excess at pic-nics? Is man dying out?
This was a sad calamity. There could be little doubt that when we heard the roars of the infuriated beast it was attacking the line of beaters, and knocking them over right and left before they had time to ascend the trees. Demoiselle arrived with Mr. Berry, who came into my howdah, while the tiger was with some difficulty secured upon the pad of that exceedingly docile elephant.
I fancied I saw his eyes wander among the ladies, and not marking her he crossed over to where I stood disconsolate before the fireplace. "Why, Richard, my lad," says he, "you are quite grown since I saw you. And the little girl that was your playmate, Miss Dolly, I mean, has outstripped me, egad. She has become suddenly une belle demoiselle, like a rose that blooms in a night."
I fancied I saw his eyes wander among the ladies, and not marking her he crossed over to where I stood disconsolate before the fireplace. "Why, Richard, my lad," says he, "you are quite grown since I saw you. And the little girl that was your playmate, Miss Dolly, I mean, has outstripped me, egad. She has become suddenly une belle demoiselle, like a rose that blooms in a night."
The misfortune, so far as I am concerned, is that he cannot spoil me much longer it is almost over now. He expects to leave here in two days; and he has announced to me that he will come to make his adieus, to-morrow afternoon. "You will come soon, won't you, ma chere demoiselle? I burn with impatience to embrace you, since you permit me to embrace you.
"Ha! le bonhomme!" cried the incorrigible wife, "he would first see which demoiselle it was before he presented the bottle!" Hubby appeared to be slightly discomfited at this and beat a hasty retreat. And one day "Alice," whose baby I had doctored, arrived, and even she, difficult as she found it to make both ends meet, had not come without something.
But I thought that what the demoiselle Meelair has said was very strange, and not true exactly; for I have often seen the tobacco grow, and it springs up out of the ground like the wheat or the beans, and it has beautiful leaves, broad and green, with sometimes a red flower at the top. Does the good God cause the filthy weeds to grow like that? Are they not all clean that He has made?
'Take the alternative, 'douairiere or demoiselle'? cried Lady Jocelyn. 'We must have a sharp distinction, or Olympus will be mobbed. 'Entre les deux, s'il vous plait, responded Aunt Bel. 'Rose, hurry down, and leaven the mass. I see ten girls in a bunch. It's shocking. Ferdinand, pray disperse yourself. Why is it, Emily, that we are always in excess at pic-nics? Is man dying out?
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