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More and more interestedly had the Frenchwoman listened and with an increasing hint of curiosity in her intelligent eyes. She pressed Dowson's needle-roughened fingers warmly. "You have not said too much. It is well that I should know this of this gentleman. As you say, he is a man who is much discussed. I myself have heard much of him but of things connected with another part of his character.
The cautious governess wondered, but half disposed to fancy that there was no more than the necessary freedom of a ship in it all, for, like a true Frenchwoman, Mademoiselle Viefville had very vague notions of the secrets of the mighty deep she permitted it to pass, confiding in the long-tried taste and discretion of her charge. While Mr.
People wonder on the island why I let you go alone to London they forget your dear mother was a Frenchwoman! If you see anything your dear old grandfather would like send it on. Later, her aunt wrote: Have you seen the Queen yet, and does she wear her crown at breakfast?
"In France she is a Frenchwoman; in Germany you would swear she had never been outside the Fatherland; in England an English maiden to the life, and in Russia she is Russian, French, English, German, American even, with a name to suit each nationality. That is how she has managed so long to evade her enemies.
"Why no for he married a Frenchwoman, Jack, God rest her dear soul!" he lifted his hat "and settled in that country, near Morlaix, in Brittany, among my mother's kin; my grandfather refusing to see or speak with him, for wedding a poor woman without his consent. And in France was I born and bred, and came to England two years agone; and this last July the old curmudgeon died.
At one time he seems to be sinking into the mere abject dangler after Amelia; but he breaks his chains like a man, and resumes them again like a man, too, although half disenchanted of his amiable delusion. But to return for a moment to Becky. The only criticism we would offer is one which the author has almost disarmed by making her mother a Frenchwoman.
In fact, she is in charge of the chateau, since Mademoiselle Ward is, for the time, away." "Is she a Frenchwoman?" "It seems not. In fact, she is an American, though she dresses with so much of taste. Ah, Madame Brossard admits it, and Madame Brossard knows the art of dressing, for she spends a week of every winter in Rouen and besides there is Trouville itself only some kilometres distant.
It might, indeed, be cruel to rob her of Elise, the last living link that bound her to the blessed memories of her childhood, and he only mildly strove to point out to her how oddly, yet persistently, her good name had suffered through the words and deeds of this flighty, melodramatic Frenchwoman.
The wife, to be sure, will feel something more than her husband's equal, and the Frenchwoman never has felt herself the inferior in the matrimonial partnership. But how about the wage earners? Those that made ten to fifteen francs a day in the Usines de Guerre, and will now be making four or five?
Cuthbert's banner fell into possession of one Dean Whittingham, whose wife, the historian lamentingly says, "being a Frenchwoman, did most despitefully burn the same in her fire, to the open contempt and disgrace of all ancient relics."
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