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Even now Quebec was full of pilgrim poor begging against the hard winter, and execrating their spoilers. Doltaire was too fond of digging at the heart of things not to admit she spoke truth. "La Pompadour et La Friponne! Qu'est que cela, mon petit homme?" "Les deux terribles, ma chere mignonne, Mais, c'est cela La Pompadour et La Friponne!"
How could we sleep there?" said Cicely, looking with a shudder at the bed. "Tush! I have seen worse in Scotland, mignonne, ay and when I was welcomed as liege lady, not as a captive. I have slept in a box like a coffin with one side open, and I have likewise slept on a plaidie on the braw purple blossoms of freshly pulled heather!
But nothing was less a mignonne than her face and her figure; and Monsieur, feeling the ridicule, complained to the King. The King prohibited very severely this familiarity. While at Trianon these Princesses took it into their heads to walk out at night and divert themselves with crackers.
"Will you knock at my door if I fail to show up?" Adare was about to answer, but caught himself suddenly as he looked from Philip to Josephine. "What! this soon, Mignonne?" he demanded, chuckling in his beard. "Your rooms at the two ends of the house already! That was never the way with Miriam and me. Can you remember such a thing, Ma Cheri?"
Buckingham, that complaisant companion of "the merry monarch," who, "everything by turns and nothing long," having been the first to observe the impression the mignonne maid-of-honour had made on the King's susceptible fancy, had little hesitation in attaching to his diplomatic office the very undignified one of Sir Pandarus, and therefore with a brave defiance of decorum bent all his efforts to overcome the scruples, if any there might be, lingering in the mind of Louise with regard to transferring herself to the service of the Queen of England, poor Catherine of Braganza.
"Petite imbecile!" he cried, "there is no lady in France worthy to hold thy scarf; 'twas thyself, mignonne, I spoke of all the time; only the more I love the less I can express." He drew her to him, crushing the jasmine till it breathed in a fragrant dissolution, bruising her breast with the topaz. But Simon MacTaggart did not pipe wholly in vain.
"Which way are you going?" she asked carelessly, and, to his reply as to the direction, said: "Then I can give you a lift," and she took his arm with a matter-of-course air, and walked up the stairs with him. Ripton saw what had happened. He was going to follow: the portly dame retained him, and desired him to get her a cab. "Oh, you happy fellow!" said the bright-eyed mignonne, passing by.
Christine, all my life all my life I shall remember how you were ready to give up all all for me. But, mignonne, I cannot take such a sacrifice. I dare not. Go back to your husband, chérie. It is your duty. You are his, not mine. We will not stain our love thus. Christine" his voice broke "ma mignonne, I love you too well too well to do this thing. You shall not be ruined for my sake."
But if the count comes to the square he is due there now, mignonne and I am not there to show him the thing Margot, for the love of God, let me have the paper!" "Let me have the sign, the password!" Cleek snapped at a desperate chance because there was nothing else to do, because he knew that at any moment now the end might come.
"Quick!" she said; "we are wasting time, and he may be gone." Checking an exclamation which could hardly have been complimentary to Auguste, the Vicomtesse crossed quickly to her and put her arm about her. "We will follow you, mignonne," she said in French. "Must you come?" said Antoinette, appealingly. "He may not appear if he sees any one."
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