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"The cases are not equal. You'd make of me the husband of an actress. I should make of you the wife of an ambassador." "The husband of an actress, c'est bientôt dit, in that tone of scorn! If you're consistent," said Miriam, all lucid and hard, "it ought to be a proud position for you." "What do you mean, if I'm consistent?"
Surville is devoted to me!" He struck his breast; he again forgot the obscurity in the room, and cast one look of unutterable homage at his charming friend. "A bientot!" he cried, and kissed his hand and disappeared. As the canvas screen fell over him the sharp report of the rifle-firing was suddenly and grandly dominated by the roar of cannon.
"Mon petit tir aura bientot ton conte, car je tire fort bien." My friend quietly said, "Je ne tire pas mal non plus," and took his place.
She needed a saint to accomplish these reforms. It was therefore necessary that he should come to Rome, and there his saintly gifts would also enable him to render a service to the Duchess di Civitella, here present. She ended her discourse thus: "Nous vous attendons absolument, monsieur! Quittez ce vilain trou! Quittez-le bientôt! Bientôt!"
So his father-in-law sent him some information about the place, and added: "Ne manquez pas surtout de voir l'interieur de la Salle Synodale qui est peut-etre la plus belle salle gothique du monde apres celle de Westminster. Le tresor de la Cathedrale est interessant. "Je continue a me porter beaucoup mieux. Les nuits sont bonnes. "A bientot, puisque vous avez la bonne pensee de revenir.
"Mrs. Clephane understands," Harleston explained "I confide her to your care. À bientôt." He hurried out. A taxi, waiting with power on, sped up; he sprang aboard and it raced away. As it neared the Connecticut Avenue bridge, the taxi slowed down a trifle and the driver half-faced around. "The other car is just ahead, sir," he reported. "Very good," said Harleston.
She trembled as she felt the drawing of his lips. "I I must really go now," she told him hastily. He stood up to his full height, and again she quivered as she realized how magnificent a man he was. "A bientôt, Daphne!" he said, and let her go. She slipped away from his presence with the feeling of being caught in the meshes of a great net from which she could never hope to escape.
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