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Mademoiselle Descuillès had consented to fill the part of Solyman, the magnificent and charming Sultan, and I was to be the saucy French heroine, "dont le nez en l'air semble narguer l'amour," the sémillante Roxelane.
The colour of the eyes and their expression were out of keeping with the Oriental cast of the rest of the face. The man was dressed in a decent, long-skirted coat. He stopped in the doorway, and bowed only with his head. 'So your name's Baburin? queried my grandmother, and she added to herself: 'Il a l'air d'un armenien. 'Yes, it is, the man answered in a deep and even voice.
There, she is looking back again not at poor me, though. What a lovely girl she is! and a real lady l'air noble the real genuine grit, as Sam Slick says, and no mistake. By Jove, what a face! what hands! what feet! what a figure in spite of crinolines and all abominations! And didn't she know it? And didn't she know that you knew it too?"
"Very well, Crepin: you have done your part, and Nature has done hers, for Monsieur." "Yes, truly," said Crepin, "Nature has done wonders for Monsieur; and Monsieur, now he is dressed, has really all the air of a Frenchman." "Quite l'air comme il faut! l'air noble!" added Connal; and he agreed with Crepin in opinion that French dress made an astonishing difference in Mr. Ormond.
I say he abides here, but I do not think he is resident above five months out of the twelve; he wanders from land to land, and spends some part of each winter in town: he frequently brings visitors with him when he comes to shire, and these visitors are often foreigners; sometimes he has a German metaphysician, sometimes a French savant; he had once a dissatisfied and savage-looking Italian, who neither sang nor played, and of whom Frances affirmed that he had "tout l'air d'un conspirateur."
In the vast crowd he was distinguished: some nobleman of note asked who he was another observed l'air noble another exclaimed, " Le bel Anglois!" and his fortune was made at Paris; especially as a friend of Madame du Barry's asked where he bought his embroidery. He went afterwards, at least in Connal's society, by the name of "Le bel Anglois."
Now the United States which gave to the world the first practical airplane is the least advanced in this all-important science." Arrived at the school the tyro studies the fundamentals of flying in the classroom and on the field for two months before he is allowed to go up to receive as they express it, his baptême de l'air.
"Certainly, they took you for an archbishop or for a monsigneur," said Harry, when the old story of this cruel extortion was recited to him. The canon was pleased. This explanation gave a color of flattery to his infamous wrong. And madame thought her brother had quite l'air noble. Babette summoned them to dejeuner. Harry stayed gladly at a hint of invitation.
Both flanks were en l'air in face of an enemy of greatly superior strength; almost from the first every rifle was in the fighting line, and the sole reserve consisted of the two cavalry regiments. The baggage had followed the brigade across the ravine and was halted about 1000 yards in rear of the right, inadequately guarded by cavalry detachments.
Finally one of the two relief columns had to pass through two hundred miles of unmapped and unexplored country, inhabited by armed fanatical tribes fiercely opposed to the passage of the troops while the other, weak in numbers, and marching en l'air hundreds of miles from any support, was a veritable forlorn hope.
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