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At all events, I argued, she might forget the engagement, or believe that I had forgotten it. So I went, taking with me a magnificent bouquet, and an embroidered satin bag full of marrons glacés. My divinity lived, as she had told me, sous les toits and sous les toits, up seven flights of very steep and dirty stairs, I found her.
When the Venosta re-entered, she was followed by the servants, bringing in a daintier meal than they had known for days a genuine rabbit, potatoes, marrons glaces, a bottle of wine, and a pannier of wood. The fire was soon lighted, the Venosta plying the bellows.
She seemed to have set her heart on marrons, though how she knew that such things existed passes imagination." "I hope you'll find them, I'm sure." "Oh, thank you," said the Severe Arraigner, quite gratefully, it seemed.... Through the open door of the pleasant little room, there floated in the continual murmur of voices and the sighing refrain of the waltz.
"I wonder, do you know if there are any marrons glacés to-night, Miss Heth," said the voice she had first heard in the summer-house "with the little white jackets on them?" The girl felt a number of things. From every point of view this inquiry, so queer yet so clearly social, so almost glaringly inoffensive, came as a surprise and an annoyance. He had merely asked that on purpose to detain her.
You don't know how much soul satisfaction I get out of dancing all night and playing tennis with flanneled oafs and eating marrons glacés and chatting in a box at the opera till I spoil the entire evening for all the German music-lovers, and talking to all the nice doggies from the Tennis and Racquet Club whenever I get invited to Piping Rock or Meadow Brook or any other country club that has ancestors.
Oh, I pray God to grant that nothing may happen to her." "The most serious evil that's likely to happen to her for the present," said John, "will be an indigestion of marrons glacés." Maria Dolores' tears had gone now. She smiled. But afterwards she looked grave again. "Oh, I wish I could get the dread of something happening to her out of my heart.
Following a too free indulgence in marrons glacés he had been relegated to a diet that reduced him to the extremity of desperation. Not only had he been forbidden to eat sweets, but while his soul still longed for its accustomed solace, his stomach refused it, and he was unable to eat a box of candied fruit which he had with the greatest ingenuity secured.
You answer that though you would like to see the little blue-bloused porters, and that it would amuse you to think that the little French boys and girls could speak no English, and though you would certainly love the marrons glacés, you think, after all, having heard about it, we might just as well go the other way round, though, of course the marrons glacés Sensible boy! Forget about them!
They had, on the first floor, an expensive parlour, decorated in white and gold, with sofas of crimson damask; but there was something lonely in that grandeur and the place had become mainly a receptacle for their tall trunks, with a half-emptied paper of chocolates or marrons glaces on every table. After young Probert's first call his name was often on the lips of the simple trio, and Mr.
A general laugh welcomed this speech. "We have a goose!" said Minard junior. "The carts are unloading!" cried Madame Thuillier, as "marrons glaces" and "meringues" were placed upon the table. Mademoiselle Thuillier's face was blazing. She was really superb to behold. Never did sisterly love assume such a frenzied expression.
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