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Quant a la reputation, en comparaison du bonheur de vivre tranquillement avec toi, elle m'est absolument indifferente. Il me semble que lorsque le mari et la femme sont si parfaitement d'accord sur le but de la vie, il doit etre facile d'y parvenir.
David flushed and frowned in the vain desire to understand her. 'What am I to do? he said, taking the glass mechanically, but making no use of it. 'Drink! drink to my success. I have two pictures, Monsieur, in the Salon; you know what that means? the same as your Academie? Parfaitement! ah! you understand. One is well hung, on the line; the other has been shamefully treated but shamefully!
"Parfaitement, m'sieu," said the shopman, and he produced a host of saucers of every description saucers in tin, saucers in china, saucers big and little. "What in the name of all that's wonderful are you getting those things for?" asked the Captain irritably. "We want a saucepan." I feigned surprise at my carelessness and turned to the shopman again.
As a matter of fact the person on whose behalf he was acting was an American. I nodded in a non-committal way. He was also a millionaire. I bowed the kind of bow that a Frenchman makes when he says Mais parfaitement. Furthermore he was totally blind. "Joseph Pulitzer," I said. "How in the world did you guess that?" asked my companion. "That wasn't a guess," I replied.
If the books are good for anything, they must be considerably improved, by having seen so much of the world; but, as I believe they are English books, perhaps they may, like English travelers, have seen nobody, but the several bankers to whom they were consigned: be that as it will, I think you had best deliver them to Monsieur Hecht, the Prussian Minister at Hamburg, to forward to her Royal Highness, with a respectful compliment from you, which you will, no doubt, turn in the best manner, and 'selon le bon ton de la parfaitement bonne compagnie'.
Parfaitement. That's your man. Well, there will be only nineteen examples made now." General D'Hubert stood up feeling as though he had gone through an infectious illness. "I must beg your Excellency to keep my interference a profound secret. I attach the greatest importance to his never knowing..."
De temps en temps il fait de grands exemples de justice bien remarquables; ce qui lui procure d'être parfaitement obéi tant dans son intérieur qu'au-dehors. D'ailleurs il sait maintenir son pays dans un excellent état de défense, et il n'emploie vis-
Stephen Pearce que j'ai trouve chez lui; c'est un homme parfaitement comme il faut; il m'a recu bien cordialement et il m'a invite a diner demain. J'ai dine chez Mrs. Leslie hier et j'ai passe tout le tantot d'aujourd'hui chez Lewes qui habite une fort belle maison a cinq minutes d'ici.
"Parfaitement, mademoiselle, but when it shines!" and up went his hands in an admiration wherefor words were too little eloquent: at that moment he was convinced truly that the sun shone nowhere else than in the Scottish hills. "Yes, yes, when it shines, as you say, it is the dear land!
"You understand, Monsieur?" said Markham, as he went up to bed. "Madame and I are leaving here pied. We shall have coffee and brioche at five. You will not remember which way we go." "Parfaitement, Monsieur. You may rely upon my discretion." They took the road in the gray of a morning overcast with clouds and portentous of a storm.
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