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"I can bring him when I want him, Victor," said the lady. "Let us hope others will be equally fortunate," the Gascon said, with one hand in his breast, the other stroking his moustache. "Fi, monsieur, que vous sentez le tabac! je vous le defends, entendez-vous, monsieur?" "Pourtant, I have seen the day when Madame la Duchesse did not disdain a cigar," said Victor.
It was these boys who sang it, with fresh, clear voices, joining in a fine chorus, though not far away the soldiers of France were limping through the night from abandoned positions: Entendez-vous, dans les campagnes, Mugir ces feroces soldats? Ils viennent jusque dans nos bras Egorger nos fils, nos compagnes! Aux armes, citoyens! Formez vos bataillons! Marchons!
Then, significantly, and with a touch of impatience, "Allez," she added, "et dites bien a votre bonhomme entendez-vous? qu'il faut avaler la pilule." After such a warning there was nothing for it but to sign and pay. Mr. Gould had swallowed the pill, and it was as though it had been compounded of some subtle poison that acted directly on his brain.
If I can not have emotions, I must have the world. You would offer me neither one nor the other. You are blase in every thing, even in ambition. You had a career before you, and you would not take it. You give it up! for what? for a betise, for an absurd scruple. Why would you not have that seat, and be such a puritain? Why should you refuse what is mine by right, entendez-vous?"
If I cannot have emotions, I must have the world. You would offer me neither one nor the other. You are blase in everything, even in ambition. You had a career before you, and you would not take it. You give it up! for what? for a betise, for an absurd scruple. Why would you not have that seat, and be such a puritain? Why should you refuse what is mine by right, by right, entendez-vous?"
An ENGLISH DUKE, entendez-vous! An English Duke, great heaven! and the Princes of England still dancing in our royal halls! Where, where will the perfidy of Albion end?" "The King reviewed the third and fourth battalions of Police.
Miss Mackenzie speaks more respectfully of other people's eyes and hair. She thinks there is nobody in the world to compare to Miss Newcome. And you, mon ami? This is the last time, entendez-vous? You must never come here again. If M. le Comte knew it he never would pardon me. Encore? Clive. A good action gains to be repeated. Miss Newcome, does the view of the courtyard please you?
"At any rate, you understand it?" continued the other, with a bow. "Yes, sir," said Pen, with a stamp of his foot; "I understand it pretty well." "Vous me comprendrez alors, Monsieur Pendennis," replied the other, rolling out his r with Gascon force, "quand je vous dis que vous etes un lache. Monsieur Pendennis un lache, entendez-vous?" "What?" said Pen, starting round on him.
"Mais, Mademoiselle, asseyez-vous, et ne bougez pas entendez-vous? jusqu'a ce qu'on vienne vous chercher, ou que je vous donne la permission." "Quel triste coin!" cried I, "et quelles laids tableaux!" And "laids," indeed, they were; being a set of four, denominated in the catalogue "La vie d'une femme." They were painted rather in a remarkable style flat, dead, pale, and formal.
Vos sermons me fatiguent; entendez-vous? faites place a mon Altesse royale: mesdames, me connaissez-vous? je suis la " Here she broke out into frightful hysterical shrieks and laughter, and as we ran up to her, alarmed, "Oui, Henri," she says, "il a jure de m'epouser et les princes tiennent parole n'est-ce pas?
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