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"Que votre volonté soit faite," stammered the Provençal. And the Irishwoman and Basque woman cried, "Deuntar do thoil ar an Hhal
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Honi soit qui oncle Pierre, which means, evil be to him who monkeys with Uncle Peter," he said, solemnly. "To-morrow I'm going to town to buy a bull dog revolver, maybe a bull dog and a revolver, for a dog in the manger is the noblest Roman of them all."
I thought it might be her farcically pompous way of announcing my father's return, and looked pleased, I suppose, for she added, 'Do you know Prince Hermann? He spends most of his time in Eberhardstadt. He is cousin of the King, a wealthy branch; tant soit peu philosophe, a ce qu'on dit; a traveller. They say he has a South American complexion.
Whereupon Jill, having seated herself upon the stuffed head of an enormous lion skin, murmured "soit," and proceeded to light a cigarette.
Then breathless voices rose, and skirts swished and French heels tapped the polished floor and solemn subalterns stalked about seeking ices and lost buckles and mislaid fans; and a faint voice said, "Oh!" when a jewelled garter was found, and a very red subaltern said, "Honi soit!" and everybody laughed. Presently I missed the General, and, a moment later, Dorothy.
"Ashamed?" he echoed, for indeed no such thought had occurred to him. If ever a man could have taken honi soit qui mal y pense for his motto, it was our Commandant. "Naturally that would be the explanation to occur to you, living so long in such a place." She turned on her heel, half contemptuously, and resumed her way, walking with a yet quicker step than before.
Perhaps we still regard the Americans as tant soit peu rebels; but that is a feeling that will soon cease." "That is precisely the point on which I think liberal Englishman usually do great justice to America, while it is on other points that they betray a national dislike." "England believes America hostile to herself; and if love creates love, dislike creates dislike."
Duvernet, who had talked a good deal with D'Arget, in latter years, and alone of Frenchmen sometimes yields a true particle of feature in things Prussian, Duvernet tells us, these Jewels were once Chasot's own: given him by a fond Duchess of Mecklenburg, musical old Duchess, verging towards sixty; HONI SOIT, my friend!
[Footnote 33: See Gachard, Études et Notices historiques concernant l'histoire des Pays-Bas, ii., 343, en approuvant et emologant toutes les choses deseurdittes et chascune d'icelles et a fin que plus grant foy soit adjoustée
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