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She called the dripping lump a canard, like the French children. It was such a trivial thing; but it brought back with a rush all the thousand dainty, foolish, captivating intimacies that made up the maddening charm of Carlotta. Yes, I am aware that there is no language spoken under heaven that can fitly express the doting folly of a man who can be driven mad by a piece of sugar soaked in coffee.
Taking three of them, and luckily finding a quantity of strong grass cordage, he arranged them in the water, and with some cross-pieces, bound the whole together; and, besides, having found two small pieces of board to serve him as paddles, he gallantly launched forth alone, and, in about an hour, effected his object, for he excited the attention of the French brig, 'Canard, from which a boat came and took him on board.
Investigation proved, however, that the Appalachian was not outdone, for the hero of the canard accomplished his feat only by taking a Champlain steamer at Burlington, Vt., and walking deck the entire distance to Rouse's Point!
The rumor proved a canard, however, and we lined up at eleven o'clock, while the doctor counted us to see that we were all alive and well. Then up anchor and away, with the breeze born of motion cooling off the ship. The engineer was not able to keep his dire threat about the lorcha's nose, but it is only just to say that he tried to.
But there was a strange light of suspicion in his eyes, a nervous rage knotting his forehead. "My land and my earnings are my own, and I have never lived on another man's fortune. If you mean that the late Seigneur made a will that canard " "It was no canard." Tardif laughed hatefully. "There was a will right enough." "Where is it? I've heard that fool's gossip before." "Where is it?
I need not remark that all such rumors were entirely discredited here. Such a meeting kept secret from us would of course be very seriously considered here." The Prince smiled. He remained admirably self-possessed, though the very veins in his forehead were swollen with anger. "A canard of the sort has reached my ears," he remarked.
The first news came to us the night after the dastardly deed, the telegraph operator having taken it from the wires while in transmission to General Meade. The despatch ran that Mr. Lincoln had been, shot at 10 o'clock that morning at Willard's Hotel, but as I could conceive of nothing to take the President there I set the story down as a canard, and went to bed without giving it further thought.
But there was a strange light of suspicion in his eyes, a nervous rage knotting his forehead. "My land and my earnings are my own, and I have never lived on another man's fortune. If you mean that the late Seigneur made a will that canard " "It was no canard." Tardif laughed hatefully. "There was a will right enough." "Where is it? I've heard that fool's gossip before." "Where is it?
The first news came to us the night after the dastardly deed, the telegraph operator having taken it from the wires while in transmission to General Meade. The despatch ran that Mr. Lincoln had been, shot at 10 o'clock that morning at Willard's Hotel, but as I could conceive of nothing to take the President there I set the story down as a canard, and went to bed without giving it further thought.
There was some consolation, to the more determined gossips of the neighbourhood, in spreading a rumour that the young mistress of Greenriver was far gone in consumption, and had been ordered to winter abroad; but Toni's appearance, on the day of her return, was quite sufficient to give the lie to that particular canard.
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