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"But what have I done, Richard?" urged the poor lady, stunned and bewildered; "how have I offended you?" "Yes, yes," continued the Frenchwoman, with angry volubility, "what has she done that you call contumacy and disrespect?
Andrews was very angry and jerked me by my arm and told me that if ever I spoke to a child again she would pinch me." "Devil!" exclaimed the Frenchwoman. "I used to think and think, but I could never understand. How could I?" "A baby!" cried Mademoiselle Valle and she got up and took her in her arms and kissed her. "Chere petite ange!" she murmured. When she sat down again her cheeks were wet.
To encourage her, and to exchange confidences honourably with her, he told her his own secret He had been skilfully drawn into an intrigue with a scheming Frenchwoman, utterly against his father's wishes; when he had escaped from the net that had been cast for him, and was hurrying homeward, he heard the news that the being whom he loved and revered most of all mankind was dead.
"Would you like to hear the last thing about your friend and the Frenchwoman? The boys can't account for her singling out a fellow like that for her friend, so they say that the night that she cut herself at the fete and dropped in here for assistance, she found nobody here but Allen a chance customer!
Lady Montbarry was at home, and alone. But the authorities of the hotel hesitated to disturb her when they found that the visitor declined to mention her name. Her ladyship's new maid happened to cross the hall while the matter was still in debate. She was a Frenchwoman, and, on being appealed to, she settled the question in the swift, easy, rational French way.
I but left because I could not bear to tell what I know." "Your departure is construed as a confession of guilt." The Captain bent his handsome face nearer hers. "It is only a question, Julie, of the depth of your affection for Mademoiselle Kathleen. Are you willing to shield her at all costs?" The Frenchwoman faltered for a second, then drew herself proudly erect. "Oui, monsieur.
The happiness which Madame Dartois now enjoyed did not cause her to renounce her plan of visiting her own family; and, as she now had become a Frenchwoman, she thought this title would accelerate her return to her parents' favor.
"Is it good?" said the Frenchwoman when Nettie's bowl was half empty. "It's so good!" said Nettie. "I didn't know I was so hungry." "Now you will not feel the cold so," said the Frenchwoman, "and you will go back quicker. Do you like my riz-au-gras?" "What is it, ma'am?" said Nettie. The Frenchwoman laughed, and made Nettie say it over till she could pronounce the words.
As I went down stairs I thought I heard the voice of the Frenchwoman in all the shrill volubility of excuse, and others uttering suppressed but vehement imprecations, or what seemed to me to be such. I joined my cousin Emily quite out of breath. I need not say that my head was too full of other things to think much of drawing for that day.
Family Mourning I do not know how far this detestable custom of mourning is carried in France; but judging from the appearance of the French people I should say that a Frenchwoman goes into mourning for her cousins to the seventeenth degree. The result is that when I cross the Channel I seem to have reached a country devastated by war or pestilence. It is really suffering only from the family.
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