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The scale of everything was so different that all her minor values, her quainter graces, her little local authority, her humour and her wardrobe alike, for which it was enough elsewhere, among her bons amis, that they were hers, dear Fanny Assingham's these matters and others would be all, now, as nought: five minutes had sufficed to give her the fatal pitch.
All present were armed with pistols and cutlasses except Morton, who suffered the weapons presented to him to lie unheeded on the table. "Courage, mes amis!" said Gawtrey, closing his book, "Courage!" a few months more, and we shall have made enough to retire upon, and enjoy ourselves for the rest of the days. Where is Birnie?" "Did he not tell you?" said one of the artisans, looking up.
At that voice Amile knew Amis his fellow and said: "O thou Amis most well beloved, rest from my travail, I am Amile, son of the Count of Alverne, who have not ceased to seek thee for two whole years." And therewith they lighted down from their horses, and embraced and kissed each other, and gave thanks to God of that they were found.
In a few verses, I will draw your entire character. Here they are, giving you the qualities you now have and those you have had: Dans vos amours on vous trouvait legère, En amitié toujours sûre et sincère; Pour vos amants, les humeurs de Vénus, Pour vos amis les solides vertus: Quand les premiers vous nommaient infidèle, Et qu'asservis encore
Then said Amis, sighing: "Leave we here our folk, end enter into this wood to lay bare our secret." And Amis fell to blaming Amile, and said: "Change we our garments and our horses, and get thee to my house, and I will do the battle for thee against the traitor."
He receives personally his reward, and he delivers personally his intelligence. We in France know something of the breed. There is still a chance, MES AMIS. These men must cross the sea, and there are ships to be searched and ports to be watched. Believe me, the need is desperate for both France and Britain. Royer's grave good sense seemed to pull us together.
They were strenuous days for Andre-Louis, more strenuous than he had ever known, even when he had been at work to build up the Binet Company; but it follows that they were days of extraordinary prosperity. He comments regretfully upon the fact that Bertrand des Amis should have died by ill-chance on the very eve of so profitable a vogue of sword-play.
"Whether or not," said Sir Donald, anxious to be on, "I wish the top of Dunchuach was under our brogues." "Allons, mes amis, then," said John, and out we set. Out we went, and we sped swiftly down to the bridge, feeling a sense of safety in the dark and the sound of the water that mourned in a hollow way under the wooden cabars. There was no sentinel, and we crossed dry and safely.
Mes amis, Archibald's is just across the bridge, and I can assure you that the Twilight Tinkle, in which I have the honour to have collaborated, is guaranteed to change the most elongated countenance of glum into a globular surface of blithesome joy. 'No, began Selwyn impatiently. 'Let us try it, said Durwent eagerly. 'I think this chill has got into my blood.
M. des Amis smiled approvingly. Undoubtedly the young man had a good address, and a certain readiness of wit, it would appear. He ran a critical eye over his physical points. "What is your name?" he asked. Andre-Louis hesitated a moment. "Andre-Louis," he said. The dark, keen eyes conned him more searchingly. "Well? Andre-Louis what?" "Just Andre-Louis. Louis is my surname." "Oh! An odd surname.
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