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Stooping, she kissed the little fellow upon the forehead and the eyes, and his two hands came up and clasped both her cheeks. "Tu m'aimes, maman?" the child asked. She had taught him the pretty question. "Comme la vie, comme la vie!" she answered with a half sob, and caught up the little one to her bosom. Now she looked towards the window.
She either neglected me or made a show of me; she was my worst enemy, and I hated and fought her till I went to the convent at ten. When I was fourteen maman asked a doctor about me. He said I should probably go mad and at the convent they thought the same. Maman used to throw this at me when she was cross with me.
Jenkins's patients A luncheon in the Place Vendome Memoirs of an office porter A mere glance at the Territorial Bank A debut in society The Joyeuse family Felicia Ruys Jansoulet at home The Bethlehem Society Bonne Maman Memoirs of an office porter Servants The festivities in honour of the Bey A Corsican election A day of spleen The Exhibition Memoirs of an office porter In the antechamber A public man The apparition The Jenkins pearls The funeral La Baronne Hemerlingue The sitting Dramas of Paris Memoirs of an office porter The last leaves At Bordighera The first night of "Revolt"
She has just published an additional volume of her Petits Romans, in which there are some beautiful stories, but you must not expect another "Mademoiselle de Clermont:" one such story in an age is as much as one can reasonably expect. I had almost forgotten to tell you that the little girl who showed us in is a girl whom she is educating, "Elle m'appelle maman, mais elle n'est pas ma fille."
Then on the day after the wedding, in the presence of many friends who had come to offer their congratulations, a stout nurse, bearing the two chubby little ones, made her appearance; and these rosy urchins, springing forward, shouted affectionately, "Maman! Maman!" to the great astonishment and bewilderment of James Gann, who well-nigh fainted at this sudden paternity so put upon him.
Henriette's fixed idea, and she is astonished that the thought of receiving "le high-life" in his little apartment on the fifth floor makes their neighbour laugh. The other week, however, a carriage with livery had called on him. Only just now, too, he had a very "swell" visit. "Oh, quite a great lady!" interrupts Bonne Maman. "We were at the window on the lookout for father.
Some spiritual power was brooding over the assemblage and bowing all those heads in token of submission and hope. Good, brave soldiers of France, how we love and honour you at such moments, and what confidence your chiefs must feel when they lead such men to battle! We sat at table around the lamp, and good Maman Cheveret had just brought in the steaming soup.
I must hear it, that I may love you without any feeling of shame." As Riekje leaned against her husband's breast, she threw herself back a little, and it was evident that she would soon be a mother. "Come, children," cried maman Nelle, "it's time now to make the batter." She reached down an iron pan, lined with shining white enamel, poured in the flour, the eggs, and the milk.
He had on one occasion accidently overheard Madame Shumihin, in the verandah, telling her cousin Anna Fyodorovna that his maman still tried to look young and got herself up, that she never paid her losses at cards, and had a partiality for other people's shoes and tobacco.
There were eight of them altogether, and we four young ones had each been hoisted on a pair of devoted shoulders, whilst maman and papa were each carried by two men. I was lying across the finest pair of shoulders in the world, and close to me was beating the bravest heart on God's earth.