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"That's right, that's right!" he exclaimed twice, approvingly. "And so you have been looked after by...." He frowned slightly at the dame de compagnie, who was still nursing the cat. "I conclude Eleanor Madame de S is engaged. I know she expected somebody to-day. So the newspaper man did turn up, eh? She is engaged?" For all answer the dame de compagnie turned away her head.
"Bonjour, la compagnie!" * said he gaily, smiling and looking about him. * "Good day, everybody!" No one gave any reply. "Vous etes le bourgeois?" * the officer asked Gerasim. * "Are you the master here?" Gerasim gazed at the officer with an alarmed and inquiring look. "Quartier, quartier, logement!" said the officer, looking down at the little man with a condescending and good-natured smile.
In March following, they had ten fowls, a pair of swine, two bulls and two cows, kept for breeding. Lettre de Ragueneau au General de la Compagnie de Jesus, St. Then, lest it should harbor the Iroquois, they set it on fire, and saw consumed in an hour the results of nine or ten years of toil.
The round eyes of the dame de compagnie remained fixed on the two figures, which had resumed their leisurely approach. "An extremely polite young man," she said. "You shall see what a bow he will make; and it won't altogether be so exceptional either. He bows in the same way when he meets me alone in the hall."
It was then that they meditated the invasion of Hindostan by a confederate army uniting on the plains of Persia; and no secret was made of the intention of the two great European potentates to commence in the following spring a hostile demonstration Contre les possessions de la compagnie des Indes.
"I drink to the graces, Law, Physic, Divinity, Viva la Compagnie! And here's to the worthy old Bursar of Trinity, Viva la Compagnie!" "Viva, viva la va!" etc., were chorussed with a shout that shook the old walls, while Power took up the strain: "Though with lace caps and gowns they look so like asses, Viva la Compagnie!" They'd rather have punch than the springs of Parnassus, Viva la Compagnie!
'Je ne sache pas que Reeve ait ecrit aucun ouvrage de longue haleine, sauf certaines traductions difficiles, importantes: quelques-unes rappellent a cette compagnie des noms qui lui sont chers la "Vie de Washington," par Guizot; la "Democratic," de Tocqueville, un de ses plus intimes amis.
But the Rhone has that terribly powerful Compagnie de Paris-Lyon-Mediterranee to contend with. It remains to be seen whether wide public interests will be finally sacrificed to a grasping railway company. For myself, I owe the P.-L.-M. a great and lasting grudge.
"A Brazilian, he says," imparted M'sieu Guy whose surname was beyond Gaston's gallic tongue. "Ah! The uncle of America! That understands itself! He sent me out a cognac, too! And did he present you to his dame de compagnie? She put her head out of a porthole to look at our boat. A Lur, like the others, but with a pair of blistering black eyes! And a jewel in her nose!"
When he had filled, in his running hand, a leaf of the book, the little man tore it hastily off, and extended it to a boy in dark blue livery with silver buttons, bearing the initial of the newspaper, L'Actualite; and then, still continuing to write, he replied: "Prince Andras Zilah is giving a fete on board one of the boats belonging to the Compagnie de la Seine." "A fete? Why?"
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