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No, this revolution is not of the consolidating kind. Lafayette maintains order by his patrols; we hear of white cockades, and, worse still, black cockades; and grain grows still more scarce. One Monday morning, maternity awakes to hear children weeping for bread, must forth into the streets. Allons! Let us assemble! To the Hôtel de Ville, to Versailles, to the lantern!
Allons, ma belle, you must prefer me to an engagement;" and so saying, I led off my prize. Her intended partner was Mr. V ; just as we had joined the dancers, he spied us out, and approached with his long, serious, respectful face; the music struck up, and the next moment poor V. was very nearly struck down.
"Allons, mon brave; de l'absinthe, toi?" as the cabaret swallowed them up. Great and mighty were the cries and the oaths that issued from the cabaret's open doors and windows. The Villerville fisherman loved Bacchus only, second to Neptune; when he was not out casting his net into the Channel he was drinking up his spoils.
Are you ready for a scratch ?" "Allons!" I replied indifferently. The truth is, my bosom was full of a recklessness of a far more sweeping character than his own. I was in the mood for strife. It promised only the more thoroughly to prepare me for the darker trial which was before me, and which my secret soul was meditating all the while with an intense and gloomy tenacity of purpose.
At breakfast, the opportunity or rather the excuse for an attempt, was offered. His French valet, Francois, waits on him at breakfast. Mr. Pollingray and his sister asked for things in the French tongue, and, as if fearing some breach of civility, Mr. Pollingray asked me if I knew French. Yes, I know it; that is, I understand it, I stuttered. Allons, nous parlerons francais, said he.
'We are fairly sped, said the Duke to Eustacie, shrugging his shoulders between amusement and dismay. 'Madame la Duchesse is equal to any galimafre, said Eustacie, demurely; at which the Duke laughed heartily, saying, 'It is not for the family credit I fear, but for my own! 'Nay, triumph makes everything be forgiven. 'But not forgotten, laughed the Duke. 'But, allons. Now for the onset.
His muscles were all relaxed by drink. He fell prone as the heavy black jacks descended upon his head, muffled in the hood of his "dreadnaught." "Ah! V'la un affaire bien fini! Allons! Jettez-le!" growled the grim boatswain, dropping his loaded club, as all three spurned the prostrate body, and then, with a heavy lurch, it bounded off the sodden bank plunging downward, over the cliff.
And if ever I take it in convivial, in all the rest of my days, I mean to do it this day, to the toast of 'Bless 'em both." "I, too!" says Bintrey. "And now, Monsieur Voigt, let you and me be two men of Marseilles, and allons, marchons, arm-in-arm!" They go down to the door, where others are waiting for them, and they go quietly to the church, and the happy marriage takes place.
"Well then, Ethel, suppose we set out on our travels this afternoon. Visit these ladies, get them to call a meeting to-morrow, and sanction their three trustees." "You little know what a work it is to call a meeting, or how many notes Miss Rich sends out before one can be accomplished." "Faint heart you know the proverb, Ethel. Allons. I'll call on Mrs. Ledwich " "Stay," said Dr. May.
As for that wretched young man, depend upon it that he is corrupted body and soul." "But he is my own cousin." "Pooh! there is no relationship in natural children: besides, he will find you out fast enough. Ragged claimants are not long too proud to beg." "You speak in earnest?" said Arthur, irresolutely. "Ay! trust my experience of the world Allons!"
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