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Updated: June 8, 2025
The same Jacqueline de la Garde further gave evidence at the trial that M. de Saint-Maixent had often boasted, as of a scientific intrigue, of having spirited away the son of a governor of a province and grandson of a marshal of France; that he spoke of the Marchioness de Bouille, said that he had made her rich, and that it was to him she owed her great wealth; and further, that one day having taken her to a pretty country seat which belonged to him, she praised its beauty, saying "c'etait un beau lieu"; he replied by a pun on a man's name, saying that he knew another Baulieu who had enabled him to make a fortune of five hundred thousand crowns.
Je serais un ingrat si je me plaignais; car il me disait souvent: 'Quel bon Francais vous faites! Et il m'aimait a cause de cela, quoiqu'il semblt n'ainier pas la France. C'etait la un trait de son originalite.
C'etait mauvais gout, camarade, and the more so when she had a jolly archer and a lusty man-at-arms to choose from." "True, old lad. And it is as well that we can compose our differences honorably, for Sir Nigel had been out at the first clash of steel; and he hath sworn that if there be quarrelling in the garrison he would smite the right hand from the broilers.
"Fair shot," admitted Tollemache, and he stalked off to his stateroom, while the Count was vociferating, for the last time: Quel bon p'tit roi c'était la! La, la! Between Elsie and de Poincilit the chorus made quite a respectable din. Few noticed that the saloon main companion had been opened again, until the sharp bark of a dog joining in the hand-clapping turned every eye towards the stairway.
When we were on the point of parting he turned to me: "Señor, j'espère que je ne vous ai pas faché, si je me suis exprimé trop fortement devant vous qui m'avez tant rendu service, il faut me pardonner, je suis pauvre et malheureux, mais je pensois que c'était mon devoir." It was as lucky a meeting for him as for me.
Oui, la comparaison peut etre permise. C'etait comme un petit Cosaque du Don qui sautait sur sa propre tombe. Now..." "Stop, Stepan Trofimovitch, you are horribly long-winded. You didn't dance, but came to see me in a new tie, new linen, gloves, scented and pomatumed.
"A capital idea especially if you again entertain the society with a true story of events that never happened." "Allons donc! 'C'était de mon temps Que brillait Madame Grégoire. J'allais
"Il etait bien beau, cet homme la! Il m'aimait beaucoup! Je le regretterai toujours! C'etait un vrai gaillard!" Which heartfelt tribute from a nameless wanton served for epitaph to the man lying in an unmarked grave in the soldiers plot at Fort Regent.
The delighted astonishment of the poor woman, and her accent, as she exclaimed, 'O, si c'était pour moi! and then blushed to the temples at what she had said, were irresistible, and the good-natured artist was fain to make her a present of the drawing."
Brissot, Isnard, Vergniaud, Gaudet, and an infamous ecclesiastic, the Abbé Fauchet, are those whom he particularly mentions, adding: "Mais M. de Lessart trouva que c'était les payer trop cher, et comme ils ne voulurent rien rabattre de leur demande, cette négociation n'eut aucune suite, et ne produisit d'autre effet que d'aigrir davantage ces cinq députés contre ce ministre."
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