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The bosom revenged herself by whispering to Ripton scandal of the mignonne, and between them he was enabled to form a correcter estimate of the company, and quite recovered from his original awe: so much so as to feel a touch of jealousy at seeing his lively little neighbour still held in absolute possession. Mrs.
Come here, ma mignonne!" he continued, calling Babette, who approached him with a curious air of half-timid boldness "Thou art but a very little girl," he said, laying his thin white hand softly on her tumbled brown curls "Nevertheless, I should be a very foolish old man if I despised thee, or thy thoughts, or thy desire to know the truth for truth's sake.
Finally, he decides, he opens his mouth to countermand the presentation. According to reports, her beauty must have been of the ideal type of the time. All the portraits and images that Mme. du Barry has left of herself, in marble, engraving, or on canvas, show a mignonne perfection of body and face.
However rapid her spring might be, however slippery the stone she was on, she would always stop short at the word "Mignonne." One day, in a bright midday sun, an enormous bird coursed through the air. The man left his panther to look at his new guest; but after waiting a moment the deserted sultana growled deeply. "My goodness!
"This unkindness has made the parting from this place less joyous than I looked for," said Mary, "but courage, ma mignonne. Soon shall I send for thee to Scotland, and there shalt thou burst thine husk, and show thyself in thy true colours;" and turning to Susan, "Madam, I must commit my treasure to her who has so long watched over her."
"Ce petit homme tant joli, Qui toujours cause et toujours rit, Qui toujours baise sa mignonne Dieu gard' de mal ce petit homme!" His reckless song came back to us on the summer breeze. We watched him make a playful pass at a corpse which some one had propped in ghastly fashion against a door and miss it and go on whistling the same air and then a corner hid him from view.
Mary laughed joyously and triumphantly as she held it up. "There, mignonne! What sayest thou to thy token now? This is the first secret news I have had from the outer world since we came to this weary Tutbury. And oh! the exquisite jest that my Lady and Sir Ralf Sadler should be the bearers! I always knew some good would come of that suitor of thine!
Cigarette was a little hero; she was, moreover, a little desperado; but she was a child in years and a woman at heart, valiant and ruthless young soldier though she might be. She colored all over her mignonne face at the words of eulogy from this man whom she had told herself she hated; her eyes filled; her lips trembled. "It was nothing" she said softly, under her breath.
The master of Adare House had drawn her to him again. She put out a hand, and it rested on Philip's shoulder. Her eyes turned directly to him, and he alone saw the swift ebbing of the joyous light from them. John Adare's voice rumbled happily, and with his grizzled face bowed in Josephine's hair he said: "I guess I'm not sorry but glad, Mignonne." He looked at Philip again.
Tell me!" she said. He touched the soft ringlets of her hair with his lips. "They will say, 'God help his wife! mignonne. And I I shall answer 'Amen'." She lifted her face suddenly and defiantly, her eyes afire. "Do you know what I shall say if they do?" she said. "What?" said Saltash, his own eyes gleaming oddly. "I shall tell them," said Toby tensely, "to to to go to blazes!"
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