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At that word Madame Drucour looked up and said: "Ah, let me hear of Monsieur Wolfe! I had hoped to see him again myself. Such a hero, such a sweet and courteous gentleman! Frenchwoman though I be, I could have welcomed him as the victor of Quebec!"
So earnest was he, and so spell-bound were the others, that they failed to hear the door from the dining-room move, or notice the entrance of Mrs. D'Alloi as Peter ended his plea. A moment's silence followed Peter's outburst of feeling. Then the Frenchwoman cried: "Truly, truly. But what will you do for me and my child? Haven't we been ill-treated? Don't you owe us help, too? Justice?
He would be sure, no matter how much in love a Christian girl might be, she would not marry a man who already had a wife." "We might find out that," suggested Stephen. "It would be difficult," said the Frenchwoman. "I can try, among Arabs I know, but though they like to chat with Europeans, they will not answer questions. They resent that we should ask them, though they are polite.
At the very moment when I felt pleasure in insulting this woman, and in threatening her with the most fearful torments, in recalling Piedelot, who had been burned alive, and in threatening her with a similar death, she looked at me coldly, and said: "'What have you got to reproach me with, Frenchwoman? You think that you will do right in avenging your husband's death, is not that so?
I remember well the Frenchwoman Celeste, a splendid pantomimist, and her emotional "Wept of the Wishton-Wish." But certainly the main "reason for being" of the Bowery Theatre those years was to furnish the public with Forrest's and Booth's performances the latter having a popularity and circles of enthusiastic admirers and critics fully equal to the former though people were divided as always.
He would listen for ever to any conjecture, however wild, about the grandchild, but perpetually winced away from all discourse about 'the Frenchwoman, as he called her; not unkindly, but to his mind she was simply the Frenchwoman chattering, dark-eyed, demonstrative, and possibly even rouged.
Punctually at the time stated he was outside the stage door of the music-hall, and a few minutes later Mademoiselle Celaire appeared, a dazzling vision of furs and smiles and jewellery imperfectly concealed. A small crowd pressed around to see the famous Frenchwoman. Peter handed her gravely across the pavement into his waiting motor-car.
At little tables, mute records of disreputable nights, sat women stitching, and outside the streets of Montmartre were as silent as the grave. A few days later I was introduced to a case of panurgy that would have been almost extreme in any but a Frenchwoman. Madame Camille Lyon took me to call on Madame Pertat, one of the most successful doctors in Paris.
This knowledge of the dead, often so useless, has an inexpressible charm when it is applied to the places where the dead lived. We care nothing about the ancients on Highgate Hill but at Baiae, Pompeii, by the Virgilian Hades, the ancients are society with which we thirst to be familiar. To the animated and curious Frenchwoman what a cicerone was Ernest Maltravers!
I don't think we are as likely to be as badly off for meat as for bread, for after the flocks and herds are all eaten up there are the horses, and of these there must be tens of thousands in Paris." "That is a comfort, certainly," the Frenchwoman said, calmly, while Mary Brander made a little gesture of disgust.
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