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It is presence, and not talk, that makes companionship. But hark! the bois brûlés are on the bank of the river below. Emilia's heart grew still as she heard them swear. Their sacr-r-r-r-ré rolled like the rattle of a rattlesnake. They were coming up the hill, quarreling drunkenly about the powder. Now they were between the house and the stable, getting ready to dig a hole for the "poudre
They are nearly always caressing in their manners, as if the heyday of love still lingered on for these septuagenarian portraits of the age of Louis Quinze, with the faint perfume of poudre a la marechale always clinging about them.
She poisoned her husband, her father, her brother, and at last, carried away by a mania for murder, administered on all sides the fatal poudre de succession, which brought death to house, palace, and hospital, and filled the capital, nay, the whole kingdom, with suspicion and terror.
Notwithstanding her mask, she grew suddenly haggard, though her eyes, which since she had never been able to put poudre de riz or cherry paste in them were almost as fine as ever, instantly flashed out the signal of the Guion pride. Her fluffy head went up, and her little figure stiffened as she entrenched herself again behind the arm-chair.
You must see it lighted and filled with people. You ought to have been here at the bal poudre I gave last season lots of pretty girls in laces and brocades, and powder on their hair. It was a lovely sight." "It must have been. I believe Rosy would have looked real pretty fixed up that way." "Rosy?" "Our youngest; she's eighteen." "Is she out?" "Not quite; but I expect she's on the way."
Since he left no Indians have troubled the mail- or telegraph-lines, but are all moving north, stragglers and all. At Fort Connor they kill a few of them as they pass every few days. There is one band of Arapahoes in Medicine Bow Mountains, who are committing depredations around Denver, on Cache La Poudre and Big Thompson Creeks. They belong to the band that was at Cow Creek treaty.
He was scarcely able to contain his impatience as the detective slowly unwrapped the parcel, disclosing a small blue pasteboard box, on the cover of which, in black, appeared the words, "Poudre Perrier." In a moment Duvall had removed the lid, and plunged his finger into the box. As he did so, he uttered an exclamation of utter astonishment and disgust. The box contained nothing but rice powder.
It had once belonged to Antonio Exili, who had caused it to be made, ostensibly for the safe-keeping of his cabalistic formulas and alchemic preparations, when searching for the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life, really for the concealment of the subtle drugs out of which his alembics distilled the aqua tofana and his crucibles prepared the poudre de succession.
"Elle a la tête près du bonnet, n'est-ce pas? mon Dieu, elle s'enflamme comme de la poudre!" But Nina did not stay to make any explanation; somewhat paler than usual, and quite silent and reserved, she took up her position in the wings; nor had she a word to say to Lionel when he came off the stage and passed her with a nod and a smile of greeting on his way to his room.
"Yes, madame, she was taken to the chambre ardente, stretched upon the rack, and then she confessed." "Confessed what?" gasped Olympia. "She confessed to have sold her poudre de succession; to have foretold the future, and to have prepared love-philters." "I do not know that there is treason in drawing horoscopes and brewing love-philters," returned the countess, with a forced laugh.
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