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By Saint Denis! if all the compagnie d'élite have the same skill of fence, I 'll not question their appointment." The candor of the avowal was too much for my gravity, and I now joined in the mirth of his companions. If I have mentioned so trivial an incident as this here, it is because I wish to mark, even thus passingly, a trait of French military life.
Deux jours après, me sentant un peu mieux, je partis dans la compagnie d'un Maure. Il me mena par le chemin de la marine (de l
In the night came "a terrible tempest," which scattered the duke's ships "one from another, so that two of them were not in compagnie together in one place;" and when the tempest had done its work, it passed away; and the gales were fair, and the heaven was clear, when, the next day, the earl "halsed up the sayles," and came in sight of Dartmouth.
It was so still and quiet every word the youth phrased was as clear as his fresh young voice. "Tiens it is Mathieu he is singing Les Oreillers!" cried Monsieur Paul, with an accent of pride in his own tone. The young voice sang on: "J'arrive en ce pays De Basse Normandie, Vous dire une chanson, S'il plait la compagnie!" "It is an old Norman bridal song," Monsieur Paul went on, lowering his voice.
She waited for the dame de compagnie to make room for her exit; but the woman appeared lost in the contemplation of sunshine and shadows, sharing between themselves the stillness of the deserted grounds. She concealed the view of the drive from Miss Haldin. Suddenly she said "It will not be necessary; here is Peter Ivanovitch himself coming up. But he is not alone. He is seldom alone now."
No sergeant ever ordered this. When the crown prince was seated in Count Saxe's tent I went and fetched Francezka, who appeared with Madame Chambellan as her dame de compagnie.
Probably some demoiselle de compagnie. And there comes her femme de chambre, a very spruce little lass, bringing her a shawl, which the demoiselle de compagnie hastens to put over her shoulders. She allows it to be done with the air of one who is accustomed to being waited upon. Mlle. Moriaz is an heiress. Why, then, is she not married?" Count Larinski pursued his soliloquy as long as Mlle.
"So am I. Till my boat sails. I thought before I left I'd look at a merrier end of France. By Gosh! They're a happy crowd" he pointed to the packed mass on board the ancient tub of the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique. "You share their feelings," said Andrew. Arbuthnot glanced at him keenly. "I heard they made you a Brigadier. Yes? And you've chucked it?"
The warrants of the Compagnie des Indes had been assimilated to the bank-notes; and the enormous quantity of paper tended to lower its value. First, there was a prohibition against making payments in silver above ten francs, and in gold above three hundred.
Fifteen days later and 2,000 leagues farther, the Helvetia from the Compagnie Nationale and the Shannon from the Royal Mail line, running on opposite tacks in that part of the Atlantic lying between the United States and Europe, respectively signaled each other that the monster had been sighted in latitude 42 degrees 15' north and longitude 60 degrees 35' west of the meridian of Greenwich.
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