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He had no doubt they said among themselves, "She is an excellent and beautiful girl and deserving all respect;" and respect they accorded, but their respects they never came to pay. "A café is a café," said the old gentleman. "It is nod possib' to ezcape him, aldough de Café des Exilés is differen from de rez." "It's different from the Café des Réfugiés," suggested the Irishman.
"Differen' as possib'," replied M. D'Hemecourt He looked about upon the walls. The shelves were luscious with ranks of cooling sirups which he alone knew how to make.
"Didn't I play my game well a minute ago eh eh eh, Suzon?" "Oh, yes, yes, M'sieu'," she replied in English; "but now you are differen' and so are they. You must goah, so, you must!" He laughed again, a queer sardonic sort of laugh, yet he put out his hand and touched the girl's arm lightly with a forefinger. "I am a Quaker born; I never stir till the spirit moves me," he said.
Her dependents understan' she is of a differen' caste, a descendant of the great and renowned Don Alvaro of Castile." "Don't think I know the gentleman. Who was he?" asked Gordon genially, offering his guest a cigar. Pesquiera threw up his neat little hands in despair. "But of a certainty Mr.
"It makesh me homesick for the good ol' days in Berlin." "You were over, in January; weren't you?" Lloyd Avalons asked. "Yes, aft' a fashion; but 't wasn' the ol' fashion. A studen' an' a married man's two differen' things. I took Mrs. Lorimer everywhere an' to show her grat'tude she took me in han'." And Lorimer's own laugh rang out merrily at what seemed to him a superlatively good joke.
"I will speak as it please me. Who are you? What do I care? To hang me that is your business; but, for the rest, you spik to me differen'. Who are you? Your father kep' a tavern for thieves, vous savez bien!" It was true that the Sheriff's father had had no savoury reputation in the West.
Once or twice when a wild storm was on I could not land at Cap Martin, and was carried out to sea and over to France. . . . Well, that was not so bad; there was plenty to eat and drink, nothing to do. But when I marry it was differen'. I was afraid of being carried away and leave my wife the belle Mamette alone long time. You see, I was young, and she was ver' beautiful."
Time passes swiftly when thoughts are cheerful, or are only tinged with the soft melancholy of a brief separation. Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy. At last the old man continued: "I saw the thing grew on him. He was not sulky, but he stare much in the fire at night. In the daytime he was differen'. A hunter thinks only of his sport. Gawdor watched him.
"I will speak as it please me. Who are you? What do I care? To hang me that is your business; but, for the rest, you spik to me differen'! Who are you? Your father kep' a tavern for thieves, vous savez bien!" It was true that the Sheriff's father had had no savory reputation in the West.
I do not stir, and after a minute she come back sof', and peep down, her face all differen'. 'Argand! Argand! she say ver' tender and low, 'if if if' like that.
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