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"It is the first time," answered Bolingbroke, "that I ever heard so accomplished a courtier as Count Hamilton repine, with sincerity, that he could not bare his bosom to inspection." "Ah!" cried Boulainvilliers, "but vanity makes a man show much that discretion would conceal." "/Au diable/ with your discretion!" said Hamilton, "'tis a vulgar virtue.
The cortege followed this route: the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore, the boulevards to the Rue Saint-Denis, the Rue Saint-Denis, the Place du Chatelet, the Pont au Change, the Rue de la Bailer, the Marche-Neuf, the Rue Neuve-Notre-Dame, the Parvis. At every moment the King reined in his superb Arab horse to regard more at ease the delighted crowd.
On the same day he wrote to Mr. W. F. Kirby: "Excuse post-card. We have no secrets. Please don't forget to keep me au courant of your movements in re Jan., &c. We shall not be in London before early September 1891, I imagine, but then it will be for good." Elsewhere he says, almost in the words of Ovid, "My earnest wish is somehow to depart from these regions."
"Oh, indeed!" he observed. "Thanks for the address. I will not neglect you during your stay there. Be prepared for a shove that will turn your hair gray. Au revoir." And he vanished, muttering the address I had given him "Dr. Liverton, Leamington Dr. Liverton." To which he added, "I won't forget that, not by a jugful." I chuckled softly to myself as he disappeared.
He parted from Miss Grammont with a hand clasp. Belinda was flushed and distressed at the last but her friend was quiet and still. "Au revoir," said Belinda without conviction when Sir Richmond shook her hand. Section 8. Sir Richmond stood quite still on the platform as the train ran out of the station. He did not move until it had disappeared round the bend.
Then, added Duroc, the Emperor turning to us said with a smile, "After all, gentlemen, it is not for me to say too much against the Revolution since I have gained a throne by it." Then again turning to M. de Stael he said, "The reign of anarchy is at au end. I must have subordination. Respect the sovereign authority, since it comes from God.
"Can you tell me the name of your general-in-chief?" "Indeed, I should think so. It was General Jourdan." "That is correct. Au revoir;" and I carried off the old soldier of the Republic, enchanted with his reception. At the beginning of this year , there arrived at Paris an envoy from Tunis, who presented the First Consul, on the part of the Bey, with ten Arab horses.
Come, come, you have no cause for alarm; he will be all right in a couple of days. Keep your courage up, and the first thing you do go inside, and don't put your nose outside the door." And the two men at last started to go. "Au revoir, Francoise." "Au revoir, sirs." And as they spoke, there came an appalling crash.
Then he changed the subject, and spoke of indifferent matters; but he was visibly moved, and he concentrated his gaze on Mme. d'Aiglemont as if he were seeing her for the last time. "Adieu, madame," he said, with emotion in his voice. "Au revoir," said she, with that subtle coquetry, the secret of a very few among women. He made no answer and went.
The gentlemen jumped down, helping Isabel and Fanny to descend; there were friendly leavetakings and one that was not precisely friendly. "It's 'au revoir, till to-night, isn't it?" Lucy asked, laughing.
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