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It is not surprising that the shop at Poperinghe was always crowded by four in the afternoon in those old days before the second battle of Ypres. As patiently as might be, Baker and I waited, lynx-eyed, until two chairs were vacated. "Mademoiselle," we called, "deux omelettes, s'il vous plait." "Bien, messieurs, tout de suite."
Berlin, le 16/29 Juillet 1914. Sur ma question s'il avait une réponse de Vienne relativement
Thousands overran the Grand Canal, which at its greatest depth was scarcely more than a yard to the bottom, and so, despite of monarchial decree, Republican France still skates on the ornamental waters of Versailles when occasion offers. "N'oubliez pas le petit balayeur, s'il vous plait," was as often heard as "Allez vous-en." On the whole it was rather a picturesque sight.
'You see he has his pretty phrases! cried the margravine; adding encouragingly, 'S'il nest pas tant sort peu impertinent? The advance of some German or Russian nobleman spared me further efforts. We were on shore, listening to the band in the afternoon, when a sail like a spark of pure white stood on the purple black edge of a storm-cloud. It was the yacht.
You will not betray me, will you? You, having a defenceless girl's secret, will not turn upon her and use it? S'il me plait de le cacher, mon secret; pourquoi le donnerai je? Je l'aime, mon pauvre pere, voyez-vous? I would rather live with that man than with you fades intriguers of the world. I must have emotions it m'en donne. Il m'ecrit.
You might as well live in a penitentiary! 'De bouchons faisons un tas, Et s'il faut avoir la goutte, Au moins que ce ne soit pas Pour n'avoir bu qu'une goutte!" "Nay, I implore you!" I interposed again. "The landlord ..." "Hang the landlord! 'Grisons-nous " "Well, but but there is a lady in the next room ..." Müller laughed till the tears ran down his cheeks.
"A peine s'il m'avait regardé!" Célestine answered simply. "Ca, c'est un comble!" observed Trent. "You are a nice young woman for a small tea-party, I don't think. A star upon your birthday burned, whose fierce, serene, red, pulseless planet never yearned in heaven, Célestine. Mademoiselle, I am busy. Bon jour. You certainly are a beauty!" Célestine took this as a scarcely-expected compliment.
I suffered intolerably from the noise, yet so easy it is to laugh in the midst of pain -I laughed aloud when a friend of mine, passing the battery in his motor-car, raised his hand to one of the gunners, and said, "Un moment, s'il vous plait!" It was like asking Jove to stop his thunderbolts. Some people get accustomed to the noise, but others never.
Quand au voleur, il me plaît, s'il est énergique, car il m'amuse. It was the energy of self-assertiveness that pleased Beyle; that of self-restraint did not interest him. The immorality of the point of view is patent, and at times it appears to be simply based upon the common selfishness of an egotist. But in reality it was something more significant than that.
"No, no no matter," said I, hastily running by her in the direction of my room. "Madame," cried she, in a high key, "restez ici s'il vous plaît, votre chambre n'est pas faite." I continued to move on without heeding her.
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