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"And young A ?" said the statesman, after a pause. "Has an expensive mistress, and races. Your lordship might be sure of him, were you in power, and sure not to have him while you are out of it." "And B.?" rejoined Dawton. Mangez-vous bien, Monsieur? Oui, et bois encore mieux. Mons. de Porceaugnac. My pamphlet took prodigiously.
And I shall take care, Mamsell, that you return to Switzerland to-morrow. I've no doubt you are a relation of Courvoisier oui! oui! courvoisier, vous comprenny and you shall certainly be sent back to your friends." With this speech, and with the children and their maid sobbing before her, my lady retired; but for once my sister-in-law was on my side, not liking the meddlement of the elder lady.
One or two of the ladies sang to the music, another danced, and then de Galisonniére, in a full, round tenor voice, sang "The Bridge of Avignon." "Hier sur le pont d'Avignon J'ai oui chanter la belle Lon, la, J'ai oui chanter la belle, Elle chantait d'un ton si doux Comme une demoiselle Lon, la, Comme une demoiselle."
Some physicians at Paris got him blooded; the blood had little or no serum, and in two hours time it became as fragile as coral. He was unable to pronounce more than a few words, such as Oui, Non, Caillou, Bon.
"Francois," said he, "did you have much conversation with McLeod before he dismissed you on the way down?" "Oui, Monsieur, we had ver moche conversatione." "Can you remember what it was about?" "Oh oui. 'Bout a'most all tings. I tell him de mos' part of my histoire, me fadder, me moder, broder, sister, an' all dat, 'bout vich he seem not to care von buttin.
Pierre did not mean to pay a compliment; he was merely thinking. She made a little gesture of deprecation. "I was a child," she said. Pierre lifted a shoulder slightly. "What matter? It is sex that I mean. What difference to me five, or forty, or ninety? It is all sex. It is only lovers, the hunters of fire-flies, that think of age mais oui!"
"When the war broke out in August, 1914, Madame, after finishing her summer season in Brussels, was resting in her Brussels mansion. What becomes of her? She vanishes." "She told Samuel, the fellow who runs the Palaceum, that she escaped from Brussels!" interposed the Chief. The Frenchman threw his hands above his head. "Escaped, escaped? Ah, oui, par exemple, in a German Staff car.
Pokey's carriage in the court, and her footmen smoking cigars there; a tottering old man with feeble legs, as old as old Count de Florac, seemed to be the only domestic who waited on the family below. "Madame de Florac and my father talked about my profession. The Countess said it was a belle carriere. The Colonel said it was better than the army. 'Ah oui, monsieur, says she very sadly.
La Juanita in her rose-scented room tied the pink ribbons on her dainty frock, and fastened cloth of gold roses at her lithe waist. It was said that just before the crack of the pistol La Juanita's tiny hand lay in Mercer's, and that he bent his head, and whispered softly, so that the surrounding crowd could not hear, "Juanita mine, if I win, you will?" "Oui, mon Mercere, eef you win."
They were both well known to our adventurers; old Peegwish whose chief characteristic was owlishness being a frequent and welcome visitor at the house of Ian's father. "You 'pears to be in one grand hurray," exclaimed Rollin, in his broken English. Ian at once told the cause of their appearance there, and asked if they had seen anything of Petawanaquat. "Yes, oui, no dat is to say. Look 'ere!"
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