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He "does passion," to use a term of the literary argot; but instead of awaking ideas, his heroes are simply enlarged individualities, who excite only fugitive sympathies; they are not connected with any of the great interests of life, and consequently they represent nothing.
One day the whole truth was told amid a flood of tears. "I I was going to be married," cried the poor child. "I was to have been married the week the ore was found. I was all ready, and mother mother shut right down on us." Clélie glanced at me in amazed questioning. "It is a kind of argot which belongs only to Americans," I answered in an undertone. "The alliance was broken off."
The boarders dropped in one after another, interchanging greetings and empty jokes that certain classes of Parisians regard as humorous and witty. Dulness is their prevailing ingredient, and the whole point consists in mispronouncing a word or a gesture. This kind of argot is always changing.
Some of his sayings were so startling and heretical that they had gone the rounds, and certain crisp words out of the argot of the North were used by women who wished to be chic and amusing. Not quite certain why he stayed, but talking on reflectively, Gaston at last said: "You will be coming to us to-night, of course? We are having a barbecue of some kind."
The address on the parcel was "Madame Argot," I was informed, but I must get myself certified to before I could receive it. "But how am I to do that? I am not Madame Argot. Are you sure the parcel is for me?" "Perfectly. It's your affair to get the certificate." I went to the police station, one which I had not visited before, and stated the case.
Never mind, never mind, we will give it the slip, 'Tis not argot, the language, but Argo, the ship; And by sea or by land, I will swear you may far go Before you can hit on a double for Margot. W. E. G. December 17th, 1889.
The boy who had commanded his presence jolted him in the back with his knee and said, using the school argot for to cheer or shout, "Swipe up, you ghastly young ass! Swipe up! Can't you see they're pressing us?" Couldn't he see! He felt that the end of the world was coming at what he saw.
He always seemed to enjoy life, never looked bored, was unfailingly courteous and interested in the people he was talking to. It was a joy to the French people to see him at some of the small theatres, amusing himself and understanding all the sous-entendus and argot quite as well as they did.
Lewis and Natalie spoke English with the precision of the adults from whom they had learned it. They had never heard the argot of American childhood, but from mammy and from the tongue of their adopted land they had acquired a soft slurring of speech which gave a certain quaintness to their diction. It was the turn of the stranger to stare open-mouthed.
The house was to-night lit up with unusual brilliance, and was full of company Cadet, Varin, Mercier, and a crowd of the friends and associates of the Grand Company. Gambling, drinking, and conversing in the loudest strain on such topics as interested their class, were the amusements of the night. The vilest thoughts, uttered in the low argot of Paris, were much affected by them.
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