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A flash of vivid light crossed my eyes for a second, and I exclaimed eagerly: "I remember now! It was 'Dieu vous garde' signor!" He bent his head reverentially. "Merci mille fois, mademoiselle! Dieu vous garde vous aussi. Au revoir." And clasping my hand with a light yet friendly pressure, he closed the door of his room behind me.
Assisted by Auguste and Leon, Quenu would stuff sausages-skins, prepare hams, melt down lard, and salt the different sorts of bacon. There was a tremendous noise of cauldrons and cleavers, and the odour of cooking spread through the whole house. All this was quite independent of the daily business in fresh pork, pate de fois gras, hare patty, galantine, saveloys and black-puddings.
She could not see Paul de Virieu, for there was a crowd a noisy, chattering crowd of over-dressed men, each with a gaudily-dressed feminine companion encompassing her on every side. "Vingt mille francs en Banque! Une fois, deux fois, messieurs?" A pause then the words repeated. "Vingt mille francs en Banque!" Monsieur Wachner leant his tall, lean form over Sylvia.
It was attacked by Tacudona the chief of the Fois. It resisted bravely, and Tacudona made a vow that if he took it he would sacrifice the king to the gods. When he captured the town he carried out his vow by ripping open the king, and then called the place Daomi.
'Give me a drink, he say, and begin to cough a little a queer sort of rattle. Florian give him big drink, and he toss it off-whiff! 'Thank you, he say, and start again, and we see him walk away over the hill ver' slow an' he never come back. But every year there come from New York a box of flowers, and every year P'tite Louison send him a 'Merci, Charles, mille fois.
Old Anne of Fäouette laid them fresh napkins and set two crystal bowls beside them and filled the bowls with fresh water from the moat. "Ho fois!" she said, "love and the heart may change, but not the Woods of Aulnes; they never change they never change.... The golden people of Ker-Ys come out of the sea to walk among the trees."
"And will you then allow us no actors of merit?" asked Vincent. "Mais oui! dans le genre comique, par exemple, votre buffo Kean met dix fois plus d'esprit et de drollerie dans ses roles que La Porte." "The impartial and profound judgment of Madame admits of no further discussion on this point," said I. "What does she think of the present state of our dramatic literature?"
I interrupted; "there's a good fellow, I'm just doing a convent interior." "All right. The rest is silence. Ah!" with a yawn, and getting up to saunter round the room, "that's a jolly good song Embrace moi! chumph! chumph! Encore une fois!! chumph! chumph!" He did not address me again, but somehow my ideas were scattered. The convent scene went wrong.
«Enfin, par fois, des masses plus petites placées entre les grosses, semblent assurer la situation fixe de l'ensemble des blocs; mais ces rencontres sont fort rares.»
The man who eats pâté de fois gras in the sweat of his girl cashier's face, or wears purple and fine linen in order that his typewriter may have an eocene gown and a pliocene hat, seems a tolerably satisfactory specimen of the genus thief; but let us not forget that in his own home a fairly good one he may enjoy and merit that highest and most honorable title on the scroll of woman's favor, "a good provider."
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