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Before she was due to go on, she walked up and down literally snorting like a war-horse, occasionally bursting into a short scale, and then beating her breast and saying, "Mon Dieu, que j'ai le trac," which, being interpreted, means, approximately, "My God, but I have got the wind up!" I sat in a corner with my violin and gazed at her in wonder.
"Mon Dieu!" cried Madame in horror. "Is the child dead?" "No, no! " and Martine again tossed her arms aloft in a kind of frenzy. "No but look you! there IS a God! Yes! we thought He was an invention of the priests but no He is a real God after all! Oh mes enfants!" and she tried to grasp the amazed Henri and Babette in her arms, "You are two of His angels! you took my boy to the Cardinal "
"Father dear father!" cried Genevieve, following him: he slammed the door in her face for answer. With a moan she sank down upon her knees, her frail body shaken by convulsive sobs Dieu! what a bridal morn was hers! Andrea and Yvonne raised her and led her to a chair.
You are only putting their backs up!" The Frenchman shrugged his shoulders as he looked at them. "Mon Dieu!" he cried, "were there ever such impracticable people? Voila!" he added, with a shriek, as the two American ladies fell upon their knees beside Mrs. Belmont. "It is like the camels one down, all down! Was ever anything so absurd?" But Mr.
One old lady looked at me with an indescribable expression and uttered what sounded exactly like a long-drawn "Mon Dieu" of disagreeable surprise. I tried smiling at them but they appeared too astonished to appreciate our friendliness and in return merely stared with open mouths and eyes.
"Jesus Dieu!" he cried; "one of them is trembling with fever, having failed to adapt himself to this charming country of yours, and the other is a knight of Malta, as timid as a young girl; and for greater security we have taken from them even their penknives and pocket scissors." "Well, then," said Groslow, "bring them with you." "But really " said D'Artagnan.
The Frenchman hesitated. Then he said slowly, and more gravely than he had yet spoken: "Yes, I think I could." "That is well, for he is a fiend in human shape, not fit to be at large. Worse than all, if he escapes, he is almost certain to ruin the life of the woman I love, and end my hopes of winning her." "Mon Dieu!
However, Maria Monk attests, that the Priests to whom she refers did reside at those places which she has designated, and that she has seen them all in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery some of them very often, and others on a variety of occasions. Nothing is more improbable, if not impossible, than that any Papist girl should have such an extensive acquaintance among Roman Priests.
With a muttered exclamation he straightened himself and tore off her mask. Ben-Hepple goes on to say that his Majesty went from scarlet to white, from white to green, and then back again to scarlet before he made his world-famed remark, "Mon Dieu! Quel visage!" At this moment Du Barry appeared, furious at being left, and dragged her royal paramour away. But the mischief was done.
Coupeau offered his services. Mon Dieu! it was very simple. You caught hold of the limbs, and pulled them off; the pieces were good all the same. But the others protested; they forcibly took possession of the large kitchen knife which the zinc-worker already held in his hand, saying that whenever he carved he made a regular graveyard of the platter.
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