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And a child no older than my own boy who is fighting in the Argonne." "Apportez-moi une bouteille de champagne, vite!..." said the young officer. Y a-t'il quelqu'un qui a vu mon sacre cheval? In other words, if I don't find that four-legged beast which led to my damnation I shall be shot at dawn. Fusille, comprenez?
Horses were sent for, her maid aroused. She flung on her habit, and held her hand out for her chapeau. There was none. "Mademoiselle should recall the new riding hat had been too small, had been returned for blocking." "Tres bien, le vieux donc, vite!" "Oh, mon Dieu, il fut donné." A quick blow stopped further explanation.
A soldier stands by from the moment you quit your carriage till you get into it; you are allowed no will of your own; if you wish to give directions to your servant, "Vite! Vite!" cries a whiskered sentry. Are you looking through the windows of the lobbies into the boxes for your party, you are ordered off by a gendarme.
An anxious, amiable French lady, not far from tears, was eager for acquittal, and declared she would engage the prisoner to be her children's nurse. The bystanders exclaimed at the proposal; the woman was a savage, said they, and spoke no language. 'Mais, vous savez, objected the fair sentimentalist; 'ils apprennent si vite l'anglais! But to be able to speak to people is not all.
Saunderson, had indued a pair of jack-boots of large dimensions, and now invited our hero to follow him as he stalked clattering down the ample stair-case, tapping each huge balustrade as he passed with the butt of his massive horse-whip, and humming, with the air of a chasseur of Louis Quatorze, Pour la chasse ordonnee il faut preparer tout. Ho la ho! Vite! vite debout!
I am afraid! Seigneur Dieu! Mourir par le feu! Périssons alors au plus vite!" And she shuddered, audibly. Mr. Raleigh passed his arm about her and gathered her closer to himself.
But I believe, that it is that I can trust you, monsieur." "And Nancy ?" exclaimed Dan. "Pas si vite, pas si vite!" said the lady, laughing gayly, Dan's hand still in her friendly pressure. "All in good time, mon ami. It is necessary before I confide in you our little secret that I consult Monsieur le Marquis." Dan's face betrayed his disappointment.
What is her answer Yes, or No?" A thousand objections rushed into my mind. "Non, non, non!" said all these; but looking up at M. Paul, and seeing in his vexed, fiery, and searching eye, a sort of appeal behind all its menace, my lips dropped the word "oui". For a moment his rigid countenance relaxed with a quiver of content: quickly bent up again, however, he went on, "Vite a l'ouvrage!
It seems to hang upon his mind, as if he had been out-braved. His anxiety, as might well be expected from such a temper, was excessive, while Clifton was in danger: but he seems to repent now, that he did not follow the mad example. Parbleu! Madame, je suis Provencal; on dit que j'ai la tete un peu chaude; mais Messieurs les Anglois vont diablement vite aux epreuves!
You no savee, come close up that fella ply way. You no savee, come close up, that fella no good; that fella vite." And the boy looked gravely sagacious and smiled the wide, wise smile betokening proud superiority of information.
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