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In addition to this extract, Anquetil adds, "En effet, la fantaisie de garder devant ses yeux une naine monstreuse (her favourite negress mentioned previously), peut faire conjecturer que Marie Therèse n'aura pas été assez exacte
Devant an' a party is there. Must be quite gay an' altered on the mainland." Janet's face clouded. "Cap'n Daddy," she faltered, "I'm going to tell you something else." "Yer considerable talky, it seems t' me." Billy eyed the girl. "Cap'n Billy, have you ever wondered why I talk better than most of the others at the Station?"
"But she loved you!" For the life of him, the man could not face his accuser. His eyes dropped. "I know! I know! You need not tell me. That is the reason she let you keep her picture!" She swayed. For the first time in her vigorous, young life Janet felt faint. Devant sprang toward her.
After that they talked a long time planning for the future of Comet. "Larsen's the man to bring him out," said the big man in tweeds, who was George Devant himself. "I saw his dogs work in the Canadian Derby." Thompson spoke hesitatingly, apologetically, as if he hated to bring the matter up. "Mr. Devant, ... you remember, sir, a long time ago Larsen sued us for old Ben."
After that, frequently the old man shot a bird in his sight, loading the gun more and more heavily, and each time, after the shot, coming to him, showing him the bird, and speaking to him kindly, gently. But for all that the terror remained in his heart. One afternoon Marian Devant, a young man with her, rode over on horseback. Swygert met her at the gate.
"Monsieur de l'Orge," says he, shouting out at the top of his voice, "have the goodness to help Lady Griffin. She wanted MY grapes long ago, and has found out they are sour!" There was a dead paws of a moment or so. "Ah!" says my lady, "vous osez m'insulter, devant mes gens, dans ma propre maison c'est par trop fort, monsieur." And up she got, and flung out of the room.
"What for?" There was a dangerous light in the girl's eyes. "Because you have suffered for the wrong you did, you think you can ease your conscience by confessing to Cap'n Billy, and making him suffer again?" Devant stared at her. "You think it is for myself?" he asked. "Who then?" "Why, for you! Can you not see what it would mean to you?" Janet drew back. "You you want to do things for me?
Nevertheless I believe that the wise course will be to allow great latitude and let economic motives take their own course. La Richesse de la France devant la Guerre, published in 1916. Revue Bleue, February 3, 1919.
J'aurais ete, en effet, fort heureux de pouvoir causer avec vous de toutes les graves questions qui se posent aujourd'hui devant nous, tant a l'interieur qu'a l'exterieur.
Even the ladies of the house came out to exclaim over him, and Marian Devant, pretty, eighteen, and a sports-woman, stooped down, caught his head between her hands, looked into his fine eyes, and wished him "Good luck, old man."
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