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The great painter obtained an order from the household of the king for two copies of a portrait of Louis XVIII., at five hundred francs each. Though not naturally generous, Gros took his pupil to an artist-furnishing house and fitted him out with the necessary materials.

On the other hand it must be borne in mind, that it was a matter of necessity that some one should go forward to arrange with the Chinese authorities as to the place where the Allied armies were to encamp; that the practice of sending one or other of the Chinese scholars within the enemy's lines had long been habitual, having been followed, with the best results, on many occasions, not only in this but in former expeditions; and that the Chinese, whatever might be their faults, had never shown any disposition to disregard a flag of truce; that, accordingly, no one concerned appears to have had any idea that there was danger to be braved; and that, putting aside Lord Elgin, Baron Gros, and Sir Hope Grant, the readiness of Mr.

"Not like a tipsy Spahi!" It was a cruel cut to her gros bebees, mostly Spahis, lying there at her feet, or rather at the foot of the wall, singing the praises with magnanimity beyond praise of a certain Chasseur d'Afrique. "Ho, Cigarette!" growled a little Zouave, known as Tata Leroux. "That is the way thou forsakest thy friends for the first fresh face."

Then his lordship, thinking that he had been kept long enough standing on the top of the theatre steps, lifted his hat and came down to the carriage, the occupant of which he had recognised. "May I have the extreme honour of introducing Mademoiselle O'Mahony to Lord Castlewell?" and M. Le Gros again pulled off his hat as he made the introduction.

The official promptly suggested that every personage in Paris connected even remotely with the mystery Gros Jean, the Turks, the waiter at the Café Noir, and even the little thief "Le Ver" should be arrested and subjected to a procès verbal. But Brett would not hear of this proceeding.

"Would 'La Longue Carbine' cut one so slight on an enemy?" "Do the Delawares crawl upon those they love like snakes, twisting themselves to strike?" "Would 'Le Gros Serpent' have been heard by the ears of one he wished to be deaf?" "Does the white chief burn his powder in the faces of his brothers?"

I said to the Baron yesterday, 'You know poor little Bartle is dead. The Baron, picking his teeth, murmured, turning over the leaves of his memory, 'Bartel! Bartel! I remember un petit gros, vrai? and the leaves of the Baron's memory were turned back, and Bartle was as much forgotten in five minutes as the burnt end of a cigarette.

Her crew, moreover, less caring for what had happened to Monsieur Le Gros, were the first to recover from their surprise; and before the comrades of the half-eaten Frenchman thought of continuing the chase, they had forced ahead several lengths of their craft from the dangerous contiguity so near being established between them.

It takes about twelve pounds of cocoons to make one pound of reeled silk, and that pound will produce from fourteen to sixteen yards of gros de Naples.

He had evidently taken the speediest means of reaching the island, and found himself on board the same ship as Gros Jean and the Turks. Hence he had approached the captain with the request that the Blue-Bell should be signalled. "What shall we answer?" said Daubeney, breaking in upon the barrister's train of thought. "Oh, say that the signal is fully understood."