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"You are looking charming, ma chere," said Lady Esmondet, whom Vaura met in the hall. "Thank you, dear, your eyes are partial, I fear." "No, no, not as you imply."
"Bon jour, ma chere," said I in a soft insinuating tone; she did not hear me, so I repeated, "Bon jour, ma chere, bon jour."
But France could give powerful aid against Frederic; and hence Maria Theresa, virtuous as she was high-born and proud, stooped to make advances to the all-powerful mistress of Louis XV., wrote her flattering letters, and addressed her, it is said, as "Ma chère cousine." Pompadour was delighted, and could hardly do enough for her imperial friend.
Her daughter, on the contrary, kept perfectly silent, or if she spoke, it was to entreat the old lady not to be alarmed. "But, ma chere fille, if those horrid balls should hit us, how dreadful!" was the answer. "Yes, ma mere, but crying out will not stop them," remarked Miss Cecile; an observation which Jack highly admired.
If Doris should not love him "Good-night Uncle Win," cried Betty from the hall. "Good-night, M. De la Maur." Doris was replacing some music in the portfolio. Cousin Henri crossed the room and she saw a mysterious sweetness in his face as he took her hand. "Ma chère amie Cousin Doris, I have just explained to your uncle my sentiments concerning you, and have his permission to ask for your regard.
"I'm not doing that at the present moment," he said. "I'm living like a beastly hermit except that I cut my nails and brush my hair occasionally. You've heard about the woman on the yacht, of course?" Her silence answered him, and he laughed again. "A lie, chère reine! There was no woman." "Oh, Charlie!" she said impulsively. "Forgive me for believing it!" He made a royal gesture. "I forgive you.
"Who took care of us all those years when we were poor and alone in the world? It's late in the day for Elinor to need protectors." "Nevertheless, she's going to have 'em," declared Bruce with undisturbed geniality. "You may mock us and you may shock us and you may say you don't care, but we're on the job for keeps, aren't we, Judith, ma chère?
To her surprise, however, no one seemed to respond to her feelings; and as the party rose from the breakfast-table, she took an opportunity to ask an explanation of Eve, in a little 'aside. "Est-ce que je me suis trompée, ma chere?" demanded the lively Frenchwoman. "Is not this la célébration de votre indépendance?"
"I was thinking of something," she said in a muffled voice. "It's all right." "Chere mademoiselle!" Lavendie murmured; and all the way home he was timid and distressed. Shaking his hand at the door, she murmured: "I'm sorry I was such a fool; and thank you awfully, monsieur. Good night." "Good night; and better dreams. There is a good time coming Peace and Happiness once more in the world.
"C'est du charme toujurs du charme!" murmured Madame Bozier, studying with a wistful affection the dainty lines of Sylvie's slight figure, "And that is an even more fatal gift than beauty, chere petite!" "Du charme! You think that is it?
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