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Other ladies came and went sometimes accompanied by gentlemen who looked worn out, had waxed moustaches and knew how to talk and they were sometimes designated in the same manner as Madame de Brives; but she remained the Marquise par excellence, the incarnation of brilliancy and renown.
Nevertheless, for a month past, these various circumstances had resulted in all the trains running between Brives and Cahors, being regularly half an hour late.
That's why one must forgive her if she's rather peculiar. She's very unhappy." "Do you mean through her husband?" "Yes, he likes other ladies better. He flirts with Mme. de Brives." Mr. Flack's hand closed over it. "Mme. de Brives?" "Yes, she's lovely," said Francie. "She ain't very young, but she's fearfully attractive. And he used to go every day to have tea with Mme. de Villepreux.
Further, in view of the dangerous state of the line, all engine drivers coming from Brives had received orders to stop their trains two hundred yards from the end of the tunnel, and all drivers coming from Cahors to stop their trains five hundred yards before the entrance to the tunnel, so that should a train appear while any work was going on which rendered it dangerous to pass, it could wait until the work was completed.
"I should say," the magistrate replied, "that you can't jump into a moving train as you can into a passing tram, and further, that at night none but express trains run between Brives and Cahors." "All right," said Juve: "I will merely point out that owing to the work on the line at present, all trains have stopped at the beginning of the tunnel for the last two months.
His excitement was so great that his hands were shaking as he carefully spread out upon the desk one of the ordnance maps he had taken from the case. "It's the map of the centre district all right: the map which shows Cahors, and Brives, and Saint-Jaury and Beaulieu! And the missing piece it is the missing piece that would give that precise district!"
Cousin Maria enjoyed the services of a distinguished chef, and delicious petits fours were served with her tea; but Raymond had a sense that to complete the impression hot home-made gingerbread should have been produced. The atmosphere was suffused with the presence of Madame de Brives.
Temperly to the foreign gentleman, with an irrepressible movement of benevolence. To which Raymond heard the gentleman reply that, Ah, she was the most distinguished woman in France. 'Do you know Madame de Brives? Effie asked of Raymond, while they were waiting for her to come in. She came in at that moment, and the girl turned away quickly without an answer.
"I don't know," said the plate-layer; "but I suppose they have to get out at Brives or Cahors and drive, or else travel by the day trains, which are fast to Brives and slow afterwards." François Paul did not press the matter. He lit a pipe and breathed upon his benumbed fingers. "Hard times, these, and no mistake!" The plate-layer seemed sorry for him.
So far from interfering with the family tone Madame de Brives directly contributed to it.
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