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'I disclaim it, ma belle demoiselle, although I protest it would be the more congenial of the two. 'Admirable, Cathleen! cried the Chieftain; 'I must find you a handsome husband among the clansmen one of these days. Cathleen laughed, blushed, and sheltered herself behind her companion.
When we took leave she said, 'Permettez moi, ma chere demoiselle, and would have kissed my hand, but I threw my arms round her neck embraced her, for there was something in her face that won my heart more than it had ever gone out to any woman I ever saw; and I saw by Lady Ommaney's whole face and gesture that she thought a great sorrow was coming on the good woman.
With a great effort now, Chauvelin pulled himself together and, though his voice still trembled, he managed to speak with a certain amount of calm: "Probably, Sir Percy, you know," he said, "that throughout the whole of France we are inaugurating a series of national fetes, in honour of the new religion which the people are about to adopt.... Demoiselle Desiree Candeille, whom you know, will at these festivals impersonate the Goddess of Reason, the only deity whom we admit now in France.... She has been specially chosen for this honour, owing to the services which she has rendered us recently... and as Boulogne happens to be the lucky city in which we have succeeded in bringing the Scarlet Pimpernel to justice, the national fete will begin within these city walls, with Demoiselle Candeille as the thrice-honoured goddess."
"Drink, father," said the sire. "You are, s'blood! the finest monk I have ever set eyes on." "Father Amador is a handsome monk," said Perrotte. "An indulgent monk," said the demoiselle. "A beneficent monk," said the little one. "A great monk," said the lady. "A monk who well deserves his name," said the clerk of the castle.
Come and roll me to bed. Really, that Demoiselle d'Aubigne is very charming!" So the invalid disappeared soon afterward and went into his sleeping-room; and one by one the lights in the salon of the Rue des Tournelles were extinguished. Saint Denis. The day had begun to break when Athos arose and dressed himself.
Or else you've been seeking only beastly carnal pleasure, while pregnancy and feeding interfered with your giving yourself up to it!" Rovinskaya became confused and uttered in a quick whisper: "Faites attention, baronne, que dans sa position cette demoiselle est instruite." "Pay attention, baroness, the girl is rather educated for one of her position."
"But," said Hastings, embarrassed, and with a changing countenance, "but time presses, and I know not where the demoiselle " "She is here," interrupted Alwyn; "here, within these walls, in yonder courtyard. I have just left her. You, whom she loves, forgot her! I, whom she disdains, remembered.
There's for the demoiselle who craved for knights to break lances for her! 'Knights indeed! Highland thieves, said Jean; 'and 'tis for what tocher they may force from you, James, not for her face. 'You are right there, my puir bairn, said the Bishop. And I for my part would never counsel his Grace to yield the lambs to the wolves, even to save himself.
In front of a high-roofed house with a projecting upper story, hung a sign bearing a green serpent on a red ground, over a stall, open to the street, which the owner was sheltering with a deep canvas awning. "Hola, Master Lambert Groats," called Ridley. "Here's the young demoiselle of Whitburn would have some dealings with you."
"Well, then, m'sieu'," continued Patrick, "it was this demoiselle who changed my mind about the smoking. But not in a moment, you understand; it was a work of four days, and she spoke much. "The first day it was at the Island House; we were trolling for ouananiche, and she was not pleased, for she lost many of the fish.
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