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Denise turned away to take from her corset two notes of five hundred francs each, which were fastened by a pin to her chemise; then she sat down and offered them to her brother's defender. The rector gave the lawyer a flashing look which was instantly moistened by a tear. "Keep the money for yourself, my poor girl," said the lawyer. "The rich do not pay so generously for a lost cause."
Another man Timokhin was lying in a corner on the benches beneath the icons, and two others the doctor and a valet lay on the floor. The valet sat up and whispered something. Timokhin, kept awake by the pain in his wounded leg, gazed with wide-open eyes at this strange apparition of a girl in a white chemise, dressing jacket, and nightcap.
Not in a tea-gown from the Rue de la Paix nothing of that kind whatever; not a ruffle, not a jewel but clothed in the well-worn garment of a fisher girl of the coast a coarse homespun chemise of linen, open at the throat, and a still coarser petticoat of blue, faded by the salt sea a fisher girl's petticoat that stopped at her knees, showing her trim bare legs and the white insteps of her little feet, incased in a pair of heelless felt slippers.
Nokes. Hi! what's-your-name! Voulez-vous avoir la bonté de [I'm always civil and very distinct, but, somehow, I can never make myself understood.] I am going to be married, my good man; to be married tout de suite immediately, and there is no time to change my my chemise d'homme. [Come, he'll understand that.] I want this button button, button, button sewn on. Here, here here. [Points to his throat.] Don't you see, you fool? [He thinks I want him to cut my throat. I shall never be in time at the Legation!] Idiot! Dolt! Send Susan, Susan,
She sat there with an angel's face, a chemise transparent except where it was embroidered, and not much else, and some of the women were fair beasts. Well, she moved on my knee, and I spilt some champagne and swore 'Jesus Christ! I said. Do you know, she pushed back from me as if I had hit her! 'Oh, don't say His Name! she said. 'Promise me you won't say it again.
I found him in small lodgings in an obscure part of the town. I was accompanied by Captain J., an old messmate of his in former times. He neither knew us nor asked us to take a seat. He had a large loaf under his left arm, and in his right hand a dinner knife. He appeared to wear the same chocolate-coloured chemise and beard, his stockings were down over his shoes, and his clothes all over flue.
Whereupon Fra Alberto took his leave, and the lady remained in such a state of exaltation that her nether end knew not her chemise, and it seemed to her a thousand years until the Angel Gabriel should come to visit her.
I subsequently dined with the royal family several times at the governor's. The queen then appeared in the national costume, with the coloured pareo and chemise, as did also her husband. Both were barefoot. The heir apparent, a boy of nine years old, is affianced to the daughter of a neighbouring king.
The former was a very handsome woman, about forty; she was tall, and finely formed; her ample figure set off by the very simple, yet, to my taste, very elegant dress formerly described: it was neither more nor less than the plain black silk petticoat over a chemise, made full at the bosom, with a great quantity of lace frills; her dark glossy hair was gathered on the crown of her head in one long braid, twisted round and round, and rising up like a small turret.
"This tenth day of August, 1760, the wretched Raton gave me the what-d'-you-call-it: reader, beware." I was almost tempted to believe in miracles, for I could not think there were two Ratons in the same house. I returned gaily to my room and found my sweetheart in bed without her chemise.
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