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The Abbe replied with the same air: "Si vous conduisez ma brouette, Ne versez pas, beau postillon, Ton ton, ton ton, ton taine, ton ton." "Ah, Abbe, your songs will drive me mad!" said Fontrailles. "You've got airs ready for every event in life." "I will also find you events which shall go to all the airs," answered Gondi. "Faith, the air of these pleases me!" said Fontrailles, in an under voice.
Baron d'Aubier, gentleman-in-ordinary to the King, and my particular friend, had a good memory and a clear way of communicating the substance of the debates and decrees of the National Assembly. I went daily to the Queen's apartments to repeat all this to the King, who used to say, on seeing me, "Ah! here's the Postillon par Calais," a newspaper of the time.
Whilst I was walking along the Faubourg Saint Honore I suddenly perceived an open caleche, drawn by a pair of horses, bestriding one of which was a postillion arrayed in the traditional costume hair a la Catogan, jacket with scarlet facings, gold-banded hat, huge boots, and all the other appurtenances which one saw during long years on the stage in Adolphe Adam's sprightly but "impossible" opera-comique "Le Postillon de Longjumeau."
"A man does not make such a voyage for nothing," remarked Madame Nourrisson. "You have a right to look for love for your own sake, particularly being so good-looking. Oh, he is very handsome!" said she to Carabine. "Very handsome, handsomer than the Postillon de Longjumeau," replied the courtesan. Cydalise took the Brazilian's hand, but he released it as politely as he could.
Why, you are a genuine postillon d' amour! Do you bring me another letter?" "A third dispatch from General Bernadotte," exclaimed Heinle, outside, pushing his arm with the dispatch again through the door. Thugut took it and rapidly opened it. "It seems matters are growing more pressing," he said, smilingly. "Let us read it!"
Baron d'Aubier, gentleman-in-ordinary to the King, and my particular friend, had a good memory and a clear way of communicating the substance of the debates and decrees of the National Assembly. I went daily to the Queen's apartments to repeat all this to the King, who used to say, on seeing me, "Ah! here's the Postillon par Calais," a newspaper of the time.
Pollnitz, however, spoke on with cool self-possession: "You look astonished, princess; it perhaps appears to you that this impassive face is little suited to the role of postillon d'amour, and yet that is my position, and I ask your highness's permission to make known my errand."
I suppose your majesty knows what the queen said only a few years ago to the French minister?" "No, I do not, or perhaps I have only forgotten it," replied Napoleon, carelessly. "Did she want to make a postillon d'amour of him?" "Nearly so, sire. She told him she would willingly travel four hundred leagues in order to see General Bonaparte.
The Abbe replied with the same air: "Si vous conduisez ma brouette, Ne versez pas, beau postillon, Ton ton, ton ton, ton taine, ton ton." "Ah, Abbe, your songs will drive me mad!" said Fontrailles. "You've got airs ready for every event in life." "I will also find you events which shall go to all the airs," answered Gondi. "Faith, the air of these pleases me!" said Fontrailles, in an under voice.
I shall know this look as long as I live; it is ever most clearly marked upon your visage, when you have some misfortune to announce." "Then this stony smile must have but little expression to-day, for I do not come as a messenger of evil tidings; but if your royal highness will allow me to say so, as a sort of postillon d'amour."
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