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Their devotion was invincible. One officer whom we had taken prisoner was asked what force Napoleon might have in the field, and replied with a smile of mingled derision and threatening, 'Vous verrez bientot sa force, messieurs. A private cuirassier was wounded and dragged into the square; his only cry was, 'Tuez donc, tuez, tuez moi, soldats! and as one of our men dropped dead close to him, he seized his bayonet, and forced it into his own neck; but this not despatching him, he raised up his cuirass, and plunging the bayonet into his stomach, kept working it about till he ceased to breathe.
I answered, "'Come back soon to your own chickabiddy' means 'Reviens bientot a ta cherie," which apparently satisfied him. Their Majesties thanked me with effusion, and were very gracious. The Emperor himself brought a cup of tea to me, a very unusual thing for him to do, and I fancy a great compliment, saying, "This is for our chickabiddy!"
"But shan't I be able to say good-bye to Ruth?" Sabatini leaned towards him. His expression was once more grave, yet there was the dawn of a smile upon his sensitive lips. "You can say to her what you will," he murmured, "for she is here. She had a fancy to look at her old room. I was there with her when you arrived. I have a fancy now to give an order to my chauffeur. À bientôt!"
In her youth, she was beautiful and fascinating, with numerous lovers and numberless suitors, but she grew even more famous as her age increased; when infirm and blind, and living in a convent, she ruled by virtue of her acknowledged authority and was still able to cope with the greatest philosophers, the chief and dean of whom, Voltaire, wrote the following four lines: "Qui vous voit et qui vous entend Perd bientôt sa philosophie; Et tout sage avec Du Deffand Voudrait en fou passer sa vie."
The motto read "Revenez bientôt," and smiling at the omen, Count Victor once more took his valour in his fingers and turned the handle. "Revenez bientôt" he was whispering softly to himself as he noiselessly pushed in the door. The sentence froze on his lips when he saw the Duchess seated in a chair, and turned half round to look at him.
Que l'Angleterre se montre clemente, qu'elle ouvre ses bras pour recevoir comme hote son ennemi desarme. L'Angleterre aurait peut-etre ecoute ce conseii, car partout et toujours il y a des ames faibles et timorees bientot seduites par la flatterie ou effrayees par le reproche.
The gathering of the army thus becomes visible to us; parties are continually coming in; and no doubt, as they marched along, many a little chateau and they abound through the country each with its attendant hamlet gave forth its master or heir, poor but noble, followed by as many men-at-arms, perhaps only two or three, as the little property could raise, to swell the forces with the best and surest of material, the trained gentlemen with hearts full of chivalry and pride, but with the same hardy, self-denying habits as the sturdy peasants who followed them, ready for any privation; with a proud delight to hear that on besognera bientot with that St.
Good night, monsieur, and I hope I hope" she laughed as she hung on the wish a moment "I hope you will meet his Grace on the way. If so, you may tell him 'tis rather inclement weather for the night air at his age," and she laughed again. "If you do not see him as is possible come back soon; look! my door bids you in your own language Revenez bientôt.
"'Selfish purpose' is, in your own convenient idiom, bientôt dit," Peter promptly answered. "I suppose you consider that if I truly esteemed you I should be ashamed to deprive the world of the light of your genius. Perhaps my esteem isn't of the right quality there are different kinds, aren't there? At any rate I've explained to you that I propose to deprive the world of nothing at all.
She lingered on the steps and waved her hand to him a graceful, somewhat insolent gesture. "All the same, I think I shall do my best to make you forget Margaret," she called out. "Thanks for the lift up. A bientot!" Francis drove direct from Grosvenor Square to his chambers in the Temple, and found Shopland, his friend from Scotland Yard, awaiting his arrival. "Any news?" Francis enquired.
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