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It was to play my life upon one card: should I not mortally wound him, no defence would be left me; what was yet more appalling, I thus ran the risk of bringing my own face against his scissor with the double force of our assaults, and my face and eyes are not that part of me that I would the most readily expose. "Allez!" said the sergeant-major.
I watched him hand his wife into a basket phaeton, smooth her dress, arrange her little parcels, satisfy her as to her dressing-case, and then seat himself triumphantly at her side, and call gaily to the saturnine Boulounais upon the box, "Allez!" I confess that a pang of jealousy shot through me.
Then came the imitation of a gunner hanging on his gun as the gun- carriage went bumping over the dead, the sappers and pétrole brigade coming on behind, ready to spray and fire the field, shouting: "Allez aux enfers, beaux gars de Prusse, et y attendre votre kaiser!" It was all so humorous that one was shocked into laughter by the meeting of the comic and the awful.
Some six or seven girls, well-rouged on the lips and cheeks, with large black circles around their eyes to increase their brilliance, displayed white arms, fingers covered with diamonds, round and shapely limbs. While they were chanting the Norman phrase "Allez, marchez!
They had just got into their little victoria when Charlie appeared, cigarette in hand. "Charlie," observed Deane, "Miss Bell airs thinks you'll be more comfortable by yourself than perched on this front seat." "Especially as you're smoking," added Dora. "Allez, cocher." Charlie hailed another vehicle and got in. As he did so he remarked between his teeth, "I'm d d if I stand it."
"Votre père vous appelle, allez vite!" cried the governess, shrill as a frightened bird. "I am speaking to you!" "What am I to say to him, though?" Yevgeny Petrovitch wondered. But before he had time to think of anything whatever his son Seryozha, a boy of seven, walked into the study. He was a child whose sex could only have been guessed from his dress: weakly, white-faced, and fragile.
After we had been there a few seconds we could discern the bare walls and some strange lumber in one corner. The room was a prodigious height, like an old playhouse. We retreated, and in despair went down again to the stupid or surly porter. He came upstairs very unwillingly, and pointed to a deep recess between the stairs and the folding-doors: "Allez, voila la porte et tirez la sonnette."
"Do you think monsieur is rich enough to buy the république." "Allez! Then, take them at four sous." And Mère Marianne laughs, slips the money into her trousers pocket, and goes off to another bargain in the village, where, if she gets two sous for her mackerel she will be lucky.
"Jules," she said, "If this person ever crosses the threshold of my door again, shoot him like the dog he is!" And then the black-browed Frenchman, holding open the door, hissed "ALLEZ!" as Hugh Johnstone saw for the last time the marble face of the woman who had doomed him to shame. "Go and send Ram Lal to me at once!" sternly said Berthe Louison. "Then to Major Hawke.
The next twenty minutes, or whatever it was, were by far the most nerve-racking which I had as yet experienced. La Belge said to me: "Il est gentil, votre ami," and I agreed. And my blood was bombarding the roots of my toes and the summits of my hair. I had not time to exchange a look with him let alone a word for the Wooden Hand said from the doorway: "Allez, l'autre americain,"
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