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"We were eager to fight the Hun, and we have joined the French army at the first opportunity." It was the same when the officer questioned Jules, and in a trice he realized that the two had made their escape from Ruhleben together. "Tiens!" he cried; "one little moment. Two young Frenchmen who escaped from Germany and an Englishman with them mais oui! but vraiment!
"Vraiment, ma chere Madame EEL-sun, there is no sacrifice I would not make to procure you one. I am desole it should be impossible. I have been looking; but all the tabourets and chair are taken by ladies and gentlemans. You have a drole de maniere of travel in this countree; so many people together, the ladies must be victimes sometime." "Oh, no; you don't know how to manage, that is all.
"Not in the least," answered the fur-trader promptly, with a glance at his man. "Vraiment, non, cer'nly not!" exclaimed Le Rue emphatically, not a trace of scorn being now visible on his benign countenance.
She has a becoming embonpoint, and an air de bonne societe, which when we parted she had not." The more intensely I gazed, the more convinced was I that I was right; the immovable devotion of my eyes attracted the attention of a French officer, who sat near me. "C'est une jolie femme, n'est-ce pas; monsieur?" "Vraiment," said I. "Do you know her name?" "Elle s'appelle Madame de Rosenberg."
When Napoleon returned to Paris in 1815 he interrogated the doctor who had cared for Josephine during the illness which terminated in her death the year before and asked him: "Did she speak of me at the last?" The doctor replied: "Often, very often." With emotion Napoleon replied simply: "Bonne femme: bonne Josephine elle m'aimeit vraiment."
Wherefore the officer relapsed into a thoughtful silence. Hazebrouck has a witty and pleasant procureur de la République, who once confided to me that the English were "irresistible." "In war?" I asked. "Vraiment," he replied, "but I meant in love." But the towns occupied by our Army are monotonously lacking in distinction.
"They haven't treated us overly well," remarked Joe Blunt, as they strode through the underwood. "Non, de rascale, vraiment, de am villains. Oui! How de have talk, too, 'bout oh-o-oo-ooo-wah! roastin' us alive, an' puttin' our scalp in de vigvam for de poopoose to play wid!"
He said it was already known as one of 'the divorce states, and the principal city had, in consequence, a very agreeable society. La petite n'est vraiment pas trop mal." "I daresay not! We're all good-looking. But she must be horribly common." Raymond seemed sincerely unable to formulate a judgment. "My dear, you have your own customs..." "Oh, I know we're all alike to you!"
"Because it was impossible for my messenger to deliver them, Louise: you were so unapproachable, at least for me. But you must have known that my thoughts were always with you, that my heart pined for news and comfort from you." "Non, vraiment, I did not know it," said Louise, laughingly. "You did not know it?" asked Henry, wonderingly. "Well, what did you suppose?"
"If we don't come back in less than that time, what's left o' us won't be worth seekin' for," said Joe, tightening the girth of his saddle. "Put a bit in yer own mouth, Henri," cried another, as the Canadian arranged his steed's bridle; "yell need it more than yer horse when ye git 'mong the red reptiles." "Vraiment, if mon mout' needs one bit, yours will need one padlock."
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