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Then, in the same year, appeared his sensational report of the discovery of phosphate deposits which he had traced over a long line of country; realizing their commercial value, he insisted that they should be exploited "pour le plus grand bien de l'agriculture francaise et algerienne."
"Show me a fine libretto!" "Tell me how much you'd pay." She laughed. "Five times as much as anyone else offered you. But you would have to prove the offer to my satisfaction." Gillier fidgeted on his chair, took hold of the Dépêche Algérienne, and began carefully to fold it into pleats. "I should want a royalty," he said, keeping his shining eyes on her.
Max heard himself ask, still in that carefully careless tone which seemed to his ears almost too well done. "I'm not sure, sir, but I rather think he died. Yes, now I recall reading something in La Depeche Algerienne, at the time. He'd been a brave soldier, and won several medals. There was a paragraph, yes, with a mention of his family. He came from the aristocracy, it said.
The newcomer was Heloise Brisetout, with a splendid algerienne, such as scarves used to be called, about her shoulders. "Who is amusing you? Is it this lady? What post does she want?" asked this nymph, giving the manager such a glance as artist gives artist, a glance that would make a subject for a picture.
In the hotel the fair and plump Italian waiter, who had drifted to North Africa from Pisa, had swept up the crumbs from the two long tables in the salle-a-manger, smoked a thin, dark cigar over a copy of the Depeche Algerienne, put the paper down, scratched his blonde head, on which the hair stood up in bristles, stared for a while at nothing in the firm manner of weary men who are at the same time thoughtless and depressed, and thrown himself on his narrow bed in the dusty corner of the little room on the stairs near the front door.
How many wise men have fallen On his traces, the traces of an impostor, From Babors unto Guerrouma! This joker has ruined the country He ravaged the world while he laughed; By his fault he has made of this land a desert." R. Basset, L'insurrection Algerienne, de 1871 dans les chansons populaires Khabyles Lourain, 1892.
The newcomer was Heloise Brisetout, with a splendid algerienne, such as scarves used to be called, about her shoulders. "Who is amusing you? Is it this lady? What post does she want?" asked this nymph, giving the manager such a glance as artist gives artist, a glance that would make a subject for a picture.
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