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Well, brother, the Scotchman, I suppose, thinking I was speaking ill of him, fell into a greater passion than before, and catching hold of the word dukkerin 'Dukkerin, said he, 'what's dukkerin? 'Dukkerin, said I, 'is fortune, a man or woman's destiny; don't you like the word? 'Word! d'ye ca' that a word? a bonnie word, said he.
Michele at Lucca, and from the Ca' Foscari at Venice, are effective studies of the actual look of old buildings, seen as they are shown us in Nature, with her light and the shade added to all the facts of form, and her own last touches in the way of weather-softening, and settling-faults, and tufted, nestling plants.
"Pray cut short a list of exceptions which threatens to be a long one, and tell me how you come to know this young soldier," said Miss Bellenden. "Lord, Miss Edith, it's Tam Halliday, Trooper Tam, as they ca' him, that was wounded by the hill-folk at the conventicle at Outer-side Muir, and lay here while he was under cure.
In her own chateau she kept one room for herself, and every morning came in from the dairies, where she had been working with her maids, to say, with her very gracious smile, to the invaders of her house: "Bon jour, messieurs! Ca va bien?" She hid any fear she had under the courage of her smile. Poor chateaux of France!
A brilliant man Stendhal has given the fantastic name of "crystallization" to the process which Madame de Listomere's thoughts went through before, during, and after this evening. Four days later Eugene was scolding his valet. "Ah ca! Joseph; I shall soon have to send you away, my lad." "What is it, monsieur?" "You do nothing but make mistakes.
I am jealous and proud and absurd so they all say; yet a word, a look from a real artist from one of the great men who know can break me, make me cry. Demelez ca, Monsieur, si vous pouvez! She stopped, out of breath. Their eyes were on each other. The fascination, the absorption expressed in the Englishman's look startled her.
Now we opened a tremendous fire on them, every gun telling. Then the helm was put a-port, the after-yards braced up, and again we were after them. "Again and again we practised the same manoeuvre, never allowing the `Ca Ira' to get a shot at us with one of her broadside guns.
It was the magazine hurled by the burly Englishman, who followed up the assault by a torrent of abuse. "Allez-vous-ong! Cochons! Et plus vite que ça!" There was something terrific in his awful British accent. The pair turned in obvious dismay. He waved them off. "Don't give them anything. The baby hasn't any red spots. There isn't a baby. They daren't show their noses in the rooms.
"That I will or I'll send little Jenny, she'll rin faster; but I'll ca' on Miss Grizzy for the dram mysell, and say ye sent me."
There was no shadow of fight in either only amazement, distress, and shame. "Ca can't he shave clean before tea, please?" said Campbell. "It's ten minutes to bell." Stalky shook his head. He meant to escort the half-shaved one to the meal. McTurk yawned in his chair and Beetle mopped his face. They were all dripping with excitement and exertion.
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