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Updated: June 29, 2025
Under this impression, Herbert Le Breton, leaning back in his well-padded oak armchair, ordered his scout to pack his portmanteau, and set off by the very first fast train for Paddington station. He would get over his interview with Selah Briggs in the afternoon, and return to Epsilon Terrace in good time for Lady Le Breton's dinner.
Whether Ronald Le Breton's abstruse speculations on the theory of heredity were well founded or not, it certainly did happen, at any rate, that the more he saw of Selah Briggs the better he liked her; and the more Selah saw of him the better she liked him in return.
Consider the luxury they have been accustomed to! And then think of their being obliged to want now almost for food in their last extremity! His father answered in the same quiet tone not hardly, but calmly, as though he were discussing a problem in political economy instead of the problem of Edie Le Breton's happiness 'Well, you see, it's all a matter of the standard of comfort.
"Now none of your sermons, you know, for if you come on with anything like that I'll be leaving at once," and it was clear that the Breton's bad humor was returning. "Well, that would be to your disadvantage on a cold day like this," said Celestina with a dry little smile. "That's a fact, that's a fact. Brr! What weather!" and the poor drunkard drew closer to the fire.
Veal does what he can to stifle the matter, and said, he would see Mrs. Bargrave; but yet it is certain matter of fact that he has been at Captain Watson's since the death of his sister, and yet never went near Mrs. Bargrave; and some of his friends report her to be a liar, and that she knew of Mr. Breton's ten pounds a year.
And when her delicate hand rested in his as they said good-bye, he was conscious of feelings wild, tumultuous feelings to which, in his walk homeward through the spring glades of the park, he gave impetuous course. Romantic, indeed, the position was, for romance rests on contrast. Jacob, who knew Julie Le Breton's secret, was thrilled or moved by the contrasts of her existence at every turn.
I have my Breton's hot head still, but my confounded legs are no good any longer." And he boldly challenged the clown to a duel, in which the latter was to have his legs tied, and then both of them were to sit on the ground and hack at each other with knives.
They arose with Monsieur Le Breton's visit to us on the occasion of our first falling in with the Vestale," I replied.
At the same instant, Yves lifted a knife against the young man, which was about to fall upon him with all force of a Breton's arm, when the iron wrist of Porthos stopped it half-way. Then, like low muttering thunder, his voice growled in the darkness, "I will not have him killed!" Biscarrat found himself between a protection and a threat, the one almost as terrible as the other.
It even seemed as if a little real good was going to come at last out of Ernest Le Breton's impassioned pleading as if the sensation were going to fall not quite flat at the end of its short run in the clubs and drawing-rooms of London as a nine days' wonder. And Ernest Le Breton? and Edie?
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