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Daisy Ryven? both with husbands ." "Not as if that prevented things" the Duchesse announced reflectively "Well, well Some of my blessés show just your symptoms, Nicholas, and I discover almost immediately it is because they are in love with the brain with the imagination you must understand that is the only dangerous kind . When it is with a pretty face alone a good dose and a new book helps greatly."
The hours went by, the shouting grew louder, as bands passed on their way to the Champs Elysées to see the cannon, which I heard were now dragged there. Burton came in from time to time to tell me the news, gathered from the concierge below. I telephoned to Maurice, he was wild with delight! Everyone was going. Odette telephoned too, and Daisy Ryven. All were rejoicing and happy.
All the jolliest people in Paris some of those dear French who have been so nice to us all along, and some of the War Council and the Ryvens, and so on and, do you know, Nicholas I heard Rochester telling Madame de Clerté the same story about his bon mot when a shell broke at Avicourt as I had already heard him tell Admiral Short, and Daisy Ryven! that decided me . There was an element of self-glorification in that modest story and a man who would tell it three times, is not for me!
One does not sleep very well now, the noise of "Bertha" from six A.M. and the raids at night! but I believe I grow to like the raids and last night we had a marvelous experience. I had been persuaded by Maurice to have quite a large dinner party. Madame de Clerté, who is really an amusing personality, courageous and agreeable, and Daisy Ryven, and the fluffies, and four or five men.
I had had one from Suzette that morning thanking me for the villa but I was clearly under the impression that I had put it with the one from Maurice and one from Daisy Ryven at the other side of the bed, so I had no anxiety about it Then suddenly I saw Alathea's cheeks flame crimson and her mouth shut with a snap and I realized that the irony of fate had fallen upon me again, and that she had picked up Suzette's lavender tinted, highly scented missive.
From this, as the noise without became less loud, he glided into Schubert, and so at last ceased when the "all clear" commenced to rend the air. No one had spoken a word, and then Daisy Ryven laughed a queer little awed laugh. She was the only Englishwoman there. "We are keyed up," she said. And when they had all gone I opened my window wide and breathed in the black dark night. Oh!
"In what an incredible way the minds of women work, Nicholas!" he said "They have frequently a very definite aim underneath, but they 'grasshopper' ." I looked puzzled I suppose . "To 'grasshopper' is a new verb!" he announced "Daisy Ryven coined it.
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