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But Ma Julung's illness had other unfortunate consequences; for during it Tsen Yuying broke faith with those of the rebel leaders who had come over, and put them all to a cruel death. The natural consequence of this foolish and ferocious act was that the Mohammedans again reverted to their desperate resolve to stand firmly by the side of Tu Wensiu. The war again passed into a more active phase.
But my difficulty is that I have no one whom I can send to look after the business." "Let me go," said Jasmine. "When Tu and Wei were leaving, they begged me to follow them to consult as to the best means of helping you, and with them to depend on I have nothing to fear."
But Lorimer had rather a bad night, he tossed and tumbled a good deal, and had dreams, unusual visitors with him, and once or twice he muttered in his sleep, "No doubt about it not the least in the world and if there were " But the conclusion of this sentence was inaudible. "Tu vas faire un beau reve, Et t'enivrer d'un plaisir dangereux.
"The bleak wind of March makes me tremble and shiver," said he to himself; "but, 'Not the dark arch or the black flowing river." "Come, young man, move on," said a policeman to him. And he did move on. "But for that man I should have done it then," he whispered, in his solitude, as he went to bed. "Et tu, Brute?" were the words with which Mr.
'That's all right, thought Soames, watching her lips, 'only she's pretty cynical. His knowledge of French was not yet such as to make him grieve that she had not said 'tu. He slipped his arm round her, and murmured with an effort: "Et vous etes ma belle femme." Annette went off into a little fit of laughter. "Oh, non!" she said. "Oh, non! ne parlez pas Francais, Soames.
This more amazed Rachel than Martha's merriment. "Even you, Timothy, join in ridiculing your sister!" she exclaimed, in an "Et tu, Brute" tone. "We don't mean to ridicule you, Rachel," gasped her sister-in-law, "but we can't help laughing." "At the prospect of my death!" uttered Rachel, in a tragic tone. "Well, I'm a poor, forlorn creetur, I know.
As they got in, we all crowded to the balconies to see her take leave of her house, her aunts saying, 'Yes, child, despidete de tu casa, take leave of your house, for you will never see it again! Then came sobs from the sisters; and many of the gentlemen, ashamed of their emotion, hastily quitted the room.
Ah, Pancho Roque, tu es ruinado, mi amigo." Another shot. "Tu es ruinado, chicatico, tan cierto como navos no son coles." A third flash. "Oh, rabo de lechon de San Antonio, que es eso, que es eso!"
But at Fulin on the Ta Tu I intended to make a détour to the west as far as Tachienlu, that I might see a little of the Tibetans even though I could not enter Tibet. I did not fear trouble of any sort in spite of a last letter of warning received at Hong Kong from our Peking Legation, but there was just enough of a touch of adventure to the trip to make the roughnesses of the way endurable.
'Mon petit ange! que tu es gentille! said the mother in a low, rapid voice, pressing her hand on the child's cheek. Then, turning back to David, she chattered on about the profit and loss of married life. All that she said was steeped in prose in the prose especially of sous and francs; she talked of rents, of the price of food, of the state of wages in her husband's trade.
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