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"For all that," rejoined Maître François, "I have put many a pretty fellow his full length on the grass." "How many duels, François, did you tell us, the other evening, that you fought in the Twenty-second?" "Seventy-eight!" said the little man; "not to speak of two affairs which, I am ashamed to confess, were with the broadsword; but they were fellows from Alsace, and they knew no better."
Maitre Fille was possessed of a superstition that all the things which threaten a man's life to wreck it, operate awhile in their many fields before they converge like an army in one field to deliver the last attack on their victim. It would not have seemed strange to him, if out of the night a voice of the unseen had said that the glow in the sky came from the Manor Cartier.
It was again an attempt to destroy the `system' of the defence, but by making a mystery of the fact that the Lacoste-Verges marriage had not taken place in a church he gave the wily Maitre Alem an opportunity for following him. The summing-up of the President on the third day of the trial was, it is said, a model of clarity and impartiality.
Maitre Quennebert, or men engaged by him to watch, for he did not want to attract attention, were always prowling about the neighbourhood, so that he was kept well informed of everything that went on: The instructions he gave to these agents were, that if a funeral should leave the house, they were to find out the name of the deceased, and then to let him know without delay.
The driver extended his hand to his landlord, and the baron pressed it warmly, asking: "Well, Maitre Lebrument, how are you?" "Always the same, M'sieu le Baron." We jumped into this swinging hencoop perched on two enormous wheels, and the young horse, after a violent swerve, started into a gallop, pitching us into the air like balls.
Milord Albemarle etant aux eaux d'Aix-la-Chapelle, et ne voulant pas etre connu, ordonna a un negre qui le servoit, si on lui demandoit qui etoit son maitre, de dire qu'il etoit Frangois. On ne manqua pas de faire la question an noir, qui repondit, "Mon maitre est Franpois, et mot aussi." Un marchand, en finissant d'ecrire une lettre a un de ses correspondans, mourut subitement.
She was a Catholic, unlike Jean and most people of her class in Jersey, and ever since that night he kissed her she had told an extra bead on her rosary and said another prayer. These were the reasons why at first she was inclined to resent Guida's laughter. But when she saw that Maitre Ranulph and the curate and Jean himself laughed, she settled down to a grave content until they landed.
"Well, Maitre Sibilet," said the general to his steward, the morning after his arrival, giving him a familiar title which showed how much he appreciated his services, "so we are, to use a ministerial phrase, at a crisis?" "Yes, Monsieur le comte," said Sibilet, following the general.
Ladies without titles stood round the table; the captain of the Guards and the first gentleman of the chamber were behind the King's chair; behind that of the Queen were her first maitre d'hotel, her chevalier d'honneur, and the chief equerry.
He shall die forthwith. I know not how it was, mon maitre, but I just then chanced to spill a large bowl of garbanzos, which were intended for the puchera of the following day. They were uncooked, and were as hard as marbles; these I dashed upon the floor, and the greater part of them fell just about the doorway.
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