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Attentive, loving, and entirely devoted to Josephine, the Emperor took pleasure in embracing her neck, her figure, giving her taps, and calling her 'ma grosse bete'; all of which did not prevent, it is true, his being guilty of some infidelities, but without failing otherwise in his conjugal duties.
"Push on!" repeated Heyward; when the summons was renewed by a dozen voices, each of which seemed charged with menace. "C'est moi," cried Duncan, dragging, rather than leading those he supported, swiftly onward. "Bête! qui? moi!" "Ami de l
The women called him un horreur, and the men un bete. The old railed at his mauvais gout, and the young at his mauvais coeur, for the former always attribute whatever does not correspond with their sentiments, to a perversion of taste, and the latter whatever does not come up to their enthusiasm, to a depravity of heart.
He was very frigid and courtly when he bade the Princess good night at the door of her limousine. "Ah, que vous etes bete!" she laughed. He went to bed very angry. She had told him to his face that he was a silly fool. And so he was. He thought of all the brilliantly dignified things he might have said, if the relentless engine had not whirred her away down the drive.
His manner plainly says: "Beautiful dames, it would do me much of pleasure if I could elope with you all on the road of iron, but the bête noir, the Moral, will not permit. Behold for which, as an opened box of Louvin's perfumeries, I dispense my fragrant affection to you all: breathe it and be happy!"
A minute later the passport had been visaed! Here it is now, if you care to see it," and I pulled out the document, and exhibited the Roman visa. "But " the General began. "What really saved you was the fact that you proclaimed yourself a heretic and a barbarian," remarked the Frenchman with a smile. "Cela n'etait pas si bete." "But is that how Russian subjects ought to be treated?
Orme almost scowled, and resumed: "He has been the bête noire of my ill-starred life, but even his malice has been satiated at last. Anxious to shield you from the possibility of danger, and from all contaminating influences and association, I carried you to a distant convent; the same with which grandmother had threatened me, and placed you under the sacred shadow of the Nuns' protection.
Pelham won't keep you any longer sharp shower coming on. 'The devil will soon be basting his wife with a leg of mutton, as the proverb says au plaisir, Mr. Pelham." And at these words my post-boy started, and released me from my bete noire.
"Taking anything. No. You mean morphine or something of that kind? Pas si bête, my dear. Oh, no, I have always had a perfect horror of anything like that. W why?" "Because I think you are," she returned coolly. "Show me your left arm, Gerald." "No, no, you are mad, my dear, I assure you I don't. I give you my word of honour "
Yes, he must look into the past, into the Indian life of Sir Charles Abingdon, for the birth of this thing which now had grown into a shadow almost tangible. Benson attended at table, assisted by a dark-faced and very surly-looking maid, in whom Harley thought he recognized the housekeeper's bete noire. When presently both servants had temporarily retired. "You see, Mr.
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