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Women are the mischief that casts us adrift to chance." "Monsieur, we cast ourselves sometimes." "Dieu de Dieu! I doubt that. We should go straight enough if it were not for them." The Chasseur smiled again. "M. le Viscomte thinks we are sure to be right, then, if, for the key to every black story, we ask, 'Who was she?" "Of course I do. Well! who was she?
The Viscomte de Bruxelles was blown out of a boat on the Flemish side, and descended safe and, sound into another in the centre of the stream. Captain Tucci, clad in complete armour, was whirled out of a fort, shot perpendicularly into the air, and then fell back into the river.
Had he been a lordling, or some little viscomte, his forced residence in Paraguay would have been of shorter duration. An army would have been despatched to "extradite" him. But Aime Bonpland was only a student of Nature one of those unpretending men who give the world all the knowledge it has, worth having and so was he left to languish in captivity.
A visionary, Viscomte Melchior de Vogué, had already foreseen the prodigious development of air-travel. All the young people of the time longed to fly. Guynemer, studying the new invention with his customary energy, could hardly do otherwise than share the general infatuation. His comrades, like himself, dreamed of parts of airplanes and their construction.
A young French viscomte was fortunate enough to obtain in marriage the hand of a singularly pretty Scotch heiress of an old family and good fortune, who, amongst her other endowments, possessed a large old-fashioned house in a remote district of the highlands, where her ancestors had resided for centuries.
It was therefore disconcerting when the young Viscomte de Chose and a certain Marquis de Machin found that their knowledge of English was used for the purpose of buying a packet of cigarettes for a lieutenant who knew no French, and of running errands for British officers who accepted such services as a matter of course.
Madame Napoleon now never neglects the Mass, but if not accompanied by her husband is escorted by a guard of honour, among whom she knows that he has several agents watching her motions and her very looks. In the month of June, 1803; I dined with Viscomte de Segur, and Joseph and Lucien Bonaparte were among the guests.
Thence, passing through Flanders, she reached the stronghold of Stenay, where the Viscomte de Turenne, already compromised with the Court for having openly espoused the Condé party, had shortly before the Duchess's arrival also taken refuge. Stenay, taken from the Spaniards in 1641, had been given to the Prince de Condé in 1646.
The Chasseur colored slightly, as he remembered that he had forgotten alike his own position and their relative stations. "I beg your pardon, M. le Viscomte," he said simply, as he gave the salute with ceremonious grace, and passed onward rapidly, as though he wished to forget and to have forgotten the momentary self-oblivion of which he had been guilty.
I am satisfied well satisfied; and I am going to tell you that I have brought the Viscomte Abner de Morainville because I have chosen him for your future husband. Go, join him in the avenue." I was a little dismayed at first, but when I had seen my intended my dismay took flight he was such a handsome fellow, dressed with so much taste, and wore his sword with so much grace and spirit.
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