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'Take care of her, Madame, he said, 'and write me some news of her now and then through the War Office. It may reach me, or it may not! He kissed Angela's hand, looked into her eyes silently for a moment, and went out. 'Marche! 'cré nom d'un nom! screamed the parrot after him, as if he were going too slowly.
Thomas Glascock Bacon was born in Edgefield Village of English ancestry on the 24th of June, 1812. He was the youngest son of Major Edmund Bacon, the eloquent and distinguished member of the Edgefield Bar, and author of the humorous "Georgia Scenes," written under the nom de plume of Ned Brace.
"Nom d'un boulet!" exclaimed Michel Ardan, jumping up as if the projectile were on the point of striking against the terrestrial globe. "And we shall fall back upon the earth!" This revelation acted like a thunderbolt. Who could have expected such an error in calculation? Barbicane would not believe it. Nicholl went over the figures again. They were correct.
Maybe he's got a wife waiting for him over there." "Nom de Dieu!" said Grassette with suppressed malice, under his breath. "Maybe there's a wife waiting for him, and there's her to think of.
A tentative application through the address given, an appropriate nom de mystère, had introduced the ugly detail of preliminary expenses.
But as you say, Wilton, that you do not think it was really Captain Churchill, the name might be given merely as a nom de guerre, and the person giving it might be a very honest man, too."
"Qu'est-ce que c'est, le nom de cette village?" Followed a flood of words apparently about the village. A third time. "Qu'est-ce que c'est, le nom de cette village?" At last: "Ah, M'sieur, Villiers," with an air of surprise, as if he thought the Subaltern had known all the time, and had asked merely to start a polite conversation.
Don't ask me the whys and the wherefores. But make what you will of that which I 've been indiscreet enough to tell you." "I think you are an angel out of Heaven," cried Anthony, with ardour. "If you could know the load you have lifted from my heart, the balm you have poured into it." "If you have n't wealth," Miss Sandus went on, summing the issue up, "you have a good position and a beau nom.
What might she not say if she knew them all? "I called my mother Topsy and Aunt Ophelia, both, when I was getting over typhoid and Uncle Tom's Cabin," said he. "Then Stella was only " and the blue eyes were searching his. "Only a you know I was nearly 'found' in French. What would you call the parallel to a nom de plume? Nom de chien? Nom de something visionary, at all events.
Language failed him; he could only express his feelings by oaths and imprecations. "Nom de Dieu! Nom de Dieu!" Yes, she was dead. He had stooped to feel her pulse, and as he arose he saw before him the scarlet face of little Charles, who had raised himself in bed to look at his mother.
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