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She readily complied with Emilie's request that she would, as soon as she was able to go out, accompany her to Lady Littleton's, that they might meet and be reconciled to Mrs. Somers. "She has the most tormenting temper imaginable," said the countess; "and I would not live with her for the universe Mais d'ailleurs c'est la meilleure femme du monde."
You think you will have your way; Gervase thinks he will have his way; I think I will have my way; but as a matter of fact there is only one person in this affair whose 'way' will be absolute, and that person is the Princess Ziska. Ce que femme veut Dieu veut." "She has nothing whatever to do with the matter," declared Denzil. "Pardon! She has everything to do with it.
"How silly I was," Mrs. Bute thought, and with reason, "ever to hint that I was coming, as I did, in that foolish letter when we sent Miss Crawley the guinea-fowls. I ought to have gone without a word to the poor dear doting old creature, and taken her out of the hands of that ninny Briggs, and that harpy of a femme de chambre. Oh! Bute, Bute, why did you break your collar-bone?" Why, indeed?
At first he was passionately fond of his wife; but at the end of three months he fell in love with a little, ugly, black femme de chambre.
"Where is that?" was the next question. So I took them out on to the terrace again, and showed them Amélie's house. They stared solemnly at it, as if they had never seen it before, and then one of them turned on me quickly, as if to startle me. "Vous êtes une femme de lettres?" "It is so written down in my papers," I replied. "Journaliste?"
No femme de lettres ever received more honors, prizes, and decorations than she; a number of her writings were crowned by the Academy. A member of the Société des Gens de Lettres, with all her literary work she was a domestic woman, keeping aloof from all feminist movements.
Though," he added, with a smile, "natheless, I think I should. But it is not likely this fellow knows of the warrant against me. Paris is a big place; news does not travel all over town as quickly as at St. Quentin. I think friend Peyrot has more to gain by playing fair than playing false, and appointing the cabaret of the Bonne Femme has a very open, pleasing sound.
"Phil Sellaby? -oh, the great Phil's just had a child I mean his wife has, but Phil's been having a book all winter and it's hard not to get 'em mixed up. Know the girl he married?" "Ran Waldo had a necking acquaintance with her at one time or another, I believe. But now she's turned serious, I hear tres serieuse tres bonne femme " "I bet his book'll be a cuckoo, then. Trouble with women.
She went firmly up to her husband and lifted her hand. With an easy motion, but quick as lightning, as a lion sets foot on a dog, he caught her by the arm. "Bras-Coupé oulé so' femme," he said, and just then Palmyre would have gone with him to the equator. "You shall not have her!" gasped the master.
It was an alluring face, and moved you so to tenderness, to do battle, to give protection, that it hurt. "Throw off your hat, Malise," suggested Molly. "Celeste, take her parasol from that chair. There is so much to hear about. I asked la femme de charge, when she was in this morning, if she'd ever heard of the Blairs.
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