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This startling circumstance, when Bon-Bon replied to his visitor’s remark, imparted to his manner an air of embarrassment which probably might not otherwise have been observed. “Why, sir,” said the philosopher, “why, sir, to speak sincerely I believe you are upon my word the d dest that is to say, I think I imagine I have some faint some very faint idea of the remarkable honour ”
Do have some; you don't know how long you may be kept waiting for your tea," said Stephanotie as she danced beside her companions up the avenue. In this fashion, therefore, did the three enter the house, for both of the Armitages had yielded to temptation, and each girl was just finishing a large bon-bon when they appeared on the scene. Mrs.
He also received splendid gifts from the foreign ministers assembled at Aix-la-Chapelle, and from the Archduchess Charles and Princess Metternich at Vienna; from the Pope a ring and a colosseum in mosaic with his Holiness's arms over the centre of the frame; from the Cardinal Gonsalvi, besides other presents, a gold watch, chain, and seals of intaglios, and many beautiful bon-bon boxes of valuable stones set in gold; gold snuff-boxes, etc.; a breakfast set of porcelain from the Dauphin in 1825, with magnificent casts and valuable engravings from Canova at Rome.
Well had it been if the same quick sense of propriety had attended him in the peddling propensity to which I have formerly alluded but this was by no means the case. Indeed to say the truth, that trait of mind in the philosophic Bon-Bon did begin at length to assume a character of strange intensity and mysticism, and appeared deeply tinctured with the diablerie of his favourite German studies.
Miss Truefitt uttered a deep sigh. "What are you sighing for, Aunt Vi?" "Nothing, dear; only please don't offer me a bon-bon. The mere sight of those boxes gives me a feeling of nausea." "But you have not tried the crystallized figs," cried Stephanotie; "they are wonderfully good; and if you feel nausea a peppermint-drop will set you right.
I have destroyed empires for a bon-bon at great expense of nervous energy." "That's very likely true," said Carlyle. "I should think your feats of strength would have wrecked your imagination in time." "Not so," said Munchausen. "On the contrary, continuous exercise served only to make it stronger.
He put into her hand the ring she had seen in the little bon-bon box; a ring of his mother's that he had saved when he had parted with all else, and had put off his hand and into the box of Petite Reine's gift the day he entered the Algerian army. Cigarette flushed scarlet with passions he could not understand, and she could not have disentangled. "The ring of your mistress!
Here the iron lamp commenced swinging with redoubled violence, and the Devil half started from his seat; however, with a slight sigh, he recovered his composure, merely saying to our hero in a low tone: “I tell you what, Pierre Bon-Bon, we must have no more swearing.”
It was not in the nature of the metaphysician to forbear making some inquiry into the sources of so strange a phenomenon; and the reply of his Majesty was at once prompt, dignified, and satisfactory. “Eyes! my dear Bon-Bon eyes! did you say? oh! ah! I perceive! The ridiculous prints, eh, which are in circulation, have given you a false idea of my personal appearance. Eyes! true.
She wished to hide it, wished to confide it. 'He has a lovely day. 'And bride, said Emma. 'If you two think so! I should like to agree with my dear old lord and bless him for the prize he takes, though it feels itself at present rather like a Christmas bon-bon a piece of sugar in the wrap of a rhymed motto. He is kind to Arthur, you say? 'Like a cordial elder brother.
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