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These I proceeded to cut into strips a foot wide. One such strip, four feet long, would suffice for a mere billet-doux; but a real letter usually required several such strips pasted together.
Would you expect me to play the post-boy for such a billet-doux on the ground that I was not responsible for its contents and was a friend of both parties?" "Well," replied the counsellor, laughing at the North American directness of my language, "probably not." So he folded up the note and took it away. What became of it I do not know nor care. The third request was of still another quality.
"But, sire, only permit me " and he drew towards him the letter of M. de Guise. "You are reading?" asked the king. "Yes, sire." "Something interesting to keep you awake at this time of night?" "Oh, sire, nothing very important; the evening courier " "Oh, yes, I understand Courier of Venus; but no, I see I am wrong they do not seal billet-doux with seals of that size."
But now a little billet-doux had done what all the orators in the world could not do. The arguments remained the same, but the Queen no longer "misliked that Leicester should have the authority." It was natural that the Lord Treasurer should express his satisfaction at this auspicious result.
Tracy was indulging in her third tumbler, mixed to whet her appetite for shrimps and while Emily was deciphering, for the forty thousandth time, Charles's sanguine billet-doux lo! a dusty chaise and smoking posters, and a sun-burnt young fellow springing out, and just upon the stairs they were locked in each other's arms! Oh, the rapture of that instant! it can but happen once within a life.
But now a little billet-doux had done what all the orators in the world could not do. The arguments remained the same, but the Queen no longer "misliked that Leicester should have the authority." It was natural that the Lord Treasurer should express his satisfaction at this auspicious result.
He also introduced a cloaked and masked melodramatic miscreant, put him on a salary and set him on the midnight track of the Duke with a poisoned dagger. He also created an Irish coachman with a rich brogue and placed him in the service of the society-young-lady with an ulterior mission to carry billet-doux to the Duke.
"Oh! you little manikin I'll give you twenty;" and she did so, until she almost took away my breath. "And now," said she, "there is a senhor waiting below for a note, which you must take him." I took the note, and when I came to the gate, found a cavalier there, as she had mentioned. "Oh, senhor," said I, "what are you waiting for, is it a billet-doux from a sweet lady?"
"Can any one tell me what he wants with Acton?" said Grim. "I think that it's Acton that wants him," said Rogers. "Come to think of it, Grimmy, you're Acton's man. Why doesn't he lag you?" "Grimmy's not to be trusted. He'd read the billet-doux" "I don't believe that there's any notes, Wilson," said Grim, impressively, "in this business. It's something deeper than that." "What's the mystery, Mr.
So they too keep their philosopher, their orator, or their litterateur; and give him audience when, think you? Why, at the toilet, by all that is ridiculous, among the rouge-pots and hair-brushes; or else at the dinner-table. They have no leisure at other times. As it is, the philosopher is often interrupted by the entrance of a maid with a billet-doux.
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