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At length the time had come for us to part, and Blanche, the egregious Blanche, shed real tears as she took her leave of me. "Tu etais bon enfant" she said with a sob. "Je te croyais bete et tu en avais l'air, but it suited you." Then, having given me a final handshake, she exclaimed, "Attends!"; whereafter, running into her boudoir, she brought me thence two thousand-franc notes.
And for that I see that this whereafter they strive cometh not to pass, but that your religion continually increaseth and waxeth still brighter and more glorious, meseemeth I manifestly discern that the Holy Spirit is verily the foundation and support thereof, as of that which is true and holy over any other.
At the touch of the silky cloth the donkey, who had not twopennyworth of life in him, opened his large grey eye and winked his long ears two or three times, as much as to say, "Oh, thank you!" before a final spasm shook it from head to tail, whereafter it stirred no more. "Noiraud!
"A tavern," the foreman commented quietly; whereafter, turning to me, he added more loudly: "I say this of such fellows that a tavern... But what a noise those roisterers are making, to be sure!" The young fellow in the red shirt had just shouted: "Hi, there, soldier! Seize him by the throat! Seize him, seize him!" While from Silantiev had come the gruff retort: "What?
"Whereafter falling headlong to the floor, I lost consciousness." Kalinin's small face had become painfully contracted, and grown old and haggard-looking. Rolling over on to his breast before the languishing fire, he waved a hand to dissipate the smoke which was lazily drifting slant-wise. "For seventeen days did I remain stretched on a sick-bed, and was attended by the doctor in person.
Advised of these doings, Prince Morinaga persuaded the Emperor to change costumes with Fujiwara Morokata; whereafter the latter, riding in the Imperial palanquin, took ostensible refuge at Hiei-zan, and the sovereign, travelling in a Court lady's ox-car, made his way, first, to Nara and thence to Kasagi in Yamato, guarded by the troops of Fujiwara Fujifusa.
A long pause, whereafter ensued the following conversation between kitchen and parlour: Hermione. "Boy dear!" Spike. "Hello!" Hermione. "Be a dear and lay the cloth for me!" Spike. "Right-o!" A longer pause, during which Spike rises and takes cloth from sideboard drawer. Hermione. "Arthur!" Spike. "Yes?" Hermione. "Where did you meet him?" "Who?" Hermione. "Mr. Geoffrey.
Whereafter, of myself in particular, he inquired as he raised the spirit-level: "What is the matter with YOU, pray?" "I am feeling frightened," I muttered in response. "Feeling frightened of WHAT, indeed?" "Of being drowned." "Pooh! Just you hold your tongue." Yet the next moment he glanced at me, and added in a gentler, quieter tone: "None but a fool gets drowned.
Whereafter the party relapsed into silent expectation. It was not many minutes before Mr. Carleton returned. "Tell your friend, Miss Constance," he said, putting an exquisite little vinaigrette into her hand, "that I have nothing worse for her than that." "Worse than this!" said Constance, examining it. "Mr. Carleton, I doubt exceedingly whether smelling this will afford Miss Ringgan any benefit."
He told her his plan was to fall suddenly upon d'Andreghen and his men that night, and in the tumult to steal Hugues away; whereafter, as Adhelmar pointed out, Hugues might readily take ship for England, and leave the marshal to blaspheme Fortune in Normandy, and the French King to gnaw at his chains in Bordeaux, while Hugues toasts his shins in comfort at London.
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