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On the one side the gay young spark, with his short cloak, his fine suit; of black-and-silver, his trim limbs and jewelled hilt and chased comfit-box; on the other, the tall, stooping monk, lean-jawed and bright-eyed, whose gown hung about him in coarse, ungainly folds. And M. Francois' sentiment on first seeing the other was certainly dislike.
By the time she had been rewarded for her good behaviour by one of the dried plums in her father's comfit-box, the order had been written by Pare, and Berenger had prepared the certificate for the King's signature, according to the form given him by his grandfather. 'Your writing shakes nearly as much as mine, said the poor King, as he wrote his name to this latter.
A young dandy, who was dipping into the silver-gilt comfit-box of a charming victim, with an ensanguined finger, the only part of his delicate hand that had escaped the almond paste, tried to stop him, to relate the particulars of the expedition from which he had brought back this bloody trophy.
What then?" Tavannes drew forth a comfit-box, such as it was the fashion of the day to carry, as men of a later time carried a snuff-box. He slowly chose a prune. "If she says it?" he answered. "Then M. de Tignonville has regained his sweetheart. And M. de Tavannes has lost his bride." "You say so?" "Yes. But " "But what?" "But she will not say it," Tavannes replied coolly. "Why not?" "Why not?"
A mighty pleasant Way had his Eminence with him; and his conversation was a kind of Borgia Brocade shot with Machiavelism. My Despatches and other Secret Documents I was to carry neatly folded and moulded within a Ball of Wax not much larger than a Pill. This again was put into a Comfit-box of Gold, and suspended by a minute but strong Chain of Steel round my Neck.
Nor whether I have to do with a man very deep or very shallow, a fool or a knave! 'You may say what you please to a prisoner, I retorted coldly. 'Turenne commonly does to whom he pleases! he answered. The next moment he made me start by saying, as he drew out a comfit-box and opened it, 'I am just from the little fool you have bewitched.
"But did you not say that if he survived and was restored to strength you would then determine the course his life should take?" Still smiling, he produced his comfit-box, and raised the lid. "That is a thing he seems to have determined for himself," he answered smoothly he could be smooth as a cat upon occasion, could this bastard of Costanzo Sforza.
"In difficult Circumstances," says his Eminence, "you will open that Comfit-box and swallow that little Ball of Wax. I have often thought," he pursued, "that Spies, to be perfect in their Vocation, should first of all be apprenticed to Mountebanks. At the Fair of St.
'It is what everyone wants when they do not want big ones. Still, I suppose, he continued, taking up a comfit-box, which lay beside him, and opening it, 'if you do not get what you want for him you will sulk like the rest, my friend. 'Your Majesty has never had cause to complain of me, quoth the Marquis, forgetting his role, or too proud to play it. 'Tut, tut, tut, tut!
Across a high-backed chair lay another cloak and sword, and on the window seat, beside a pair of saddle-bags, were strewn half a dozen trifles such as soldiers carried from camp to camp a silver comfit-box, a jewelled dagger, a mask, a velvet cap. The faces of the players, as they bent over the cards, were in shadow.
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