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"I mean that Henri is no fool." "Oh!" "And that he guessed." "Guessed what?" "That you wished to make him quarrel with his wife." "That was clear." "Yes; but what was less clear was your object in doing so." "Ah! diable! the object " "Yes, this Béarnais thought your aim was to make him quarrel with his wife, that you might not have to pay her dowry." "Oh!"
In all her excursions, Madame carried her pencils with her, and almost every day sketched some picturesque site. Eight Bearnais, with an amaranth belt and hats of white and green, served her as a guard of honor. She passed all the month of August and a part of the month of September in the Pyrenees.
All cooking is a double labour unless the copper is properly tinned." This couplet rhymed well in the tongue he used, which was not Languedoc nor even Béarnais, but ordinary French of the north, well chosen, rhythmical, and sure.
See if I have well traced the genealogy of the misers?" "D'Artagnan, my friend," cried Athos, "you are very rude towards that eagle race called the Bourbons." "Eh! and I have forgotten the best instance of all the other grandson of the Bearnais, Louis XIV., my ex-master. Well, I hope he is miserly enough, he who would not lend a million to his brother Charles! Good!
No matter how strong the Bearnais was, it is doubtful whether he could have seized the crown, seeing how dearly the Duc de Mayenne and the remains of the Guise party sold it to him.
While he deciphered the Latin with every sign of impatience, Chicot, before a great Venetian mirror, which hung over a gilt table, was admiring the infinite grace of his own person under his military dress. "Oh! I am betrayed," cried Henri, when he had finished the letter; "the Béarnais had a plan, and I never suspected it."
"It is a curious fact," said he, "that you and I are very close compatriots in the matter of blood if 'compatriots' is the word. You are Irish and Spanish. My mother was Irish and my people were Béarnais, which is about as much Spanish as French; and, indeed, there was a great deal of blood from across the mountains in them, for they often married Spanish wives."
The sarcastic Béarnais grin might have revealed some of the pitfalls that lay ahead. At any rate, the King of Navarre could have given him many instances of a woman's fickleness and fickleness was the ugly word that leaped into Alec's puzzled brain when an ancient dame at Joan's lodgings told him that Mademoiselle and her maid had gone away that afternoon. "Gone! Gone where?" he asked blankly.
"While your Béarnais, who mews like a cat, bites like a tiger." "Well, my son, I will tell you what to do; divorce the queen and marry Madame de Montpensier; was she not once in love with you?" "Yes, and that is the source of all her menaces, Chicot; she has a woman's spite against me, and she provokes me now and then, but luckily I am a man, and can laugh at it."
Lincoln had the wit, the bonhomie, the keen practical insight into affairs, of the Béarnais; and the tyrannous moral sense, the wide comprehension, the heroic patience of the Dutch patriot, whose motto might have served equally well for the American President "Sævis tranquillus in undis." European historians speak of him in words reserved for the most illustrious names.
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