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Updated: May 12, 2025
He fell to thinking again "and child and child," it was in his ears and in his heart. But Pretty Pierre was singing softly to himself in the room at Pardon's Drive: "Three good friends with the wine at night Vive la compagnie! Two good friends when the sun grows bright Vive la compagnie! Vive la, vive la, vive l'amour! Vive la, vive la, vive l'amour!
The music is excellent; but it is not the fashion to dance; and les femmes de bonne compagnie, that is, well-bred women, are condemned to content themselves with the dust they inhale; for they dare not quit their mask to take any refreshment.
Braybrooke raised his eyebrows. "Know her? How should I not know her when I am constantly running over to Paris?" "Then I suppose she's very much 'in it' there?" "Yes. She is criticized, of course. She lives very unconventionally, although Fanny Cronin is always officially with her." "Fanny Cronin?" "Her dame de compagnie." "Oh, the lady who reads Paul Bourget!" "I believe she does.
I felt curious to see this lady, of whom I had heard such various reports; and, as usual, found her very different to the descriptions I had received. She came en princesse, attended by two dames de compagnie, and a gentleman who acted as chambellan.
But I tell you plainly, you may shoot me if you will, but I absolutely refuse to leave Paris to fight the Versaillais, who are no enemies of mine in particular, and I therefore demand to be set at liberty. Upon this they all laughed, and told me to leave the room. After a little time I was recalled, and told I should be placed in a compagnie sédentaire.
From all the dug-outs heads popped out, and the first movement of surprise at seeing a woman in the trenches turned to a smile of delight, since the poilu is at all times a chivalrous gentleman. One man was telling me of the magnificent work that had been accomplished by his "compagnie." I congratulated him and told him he must be happy to be in such a company.
He is first sent out for a quarter of a day; then after a week or two for half a day; then for a whole day; and when accustomed to that he is considered fit for night-work. The horses of the Compagnie Générale remain in the stable one day out of every three.
Three good friends, two good friends Vive la compagnie!" What did it mean? Private Gellatly was cousin to Idaho Jack, and Idaho Jack disliked Pretty Pierre, though he had been one of the gang. The cousins had seen each other lately, and Private Gellatly had had a talk with the man who was ha'sh. It may be that others besides Pierre had an idea of what it meant.
'Les manieres nobles et aisees, la tournure d'un homme de condition, le ton de la bonne compagnie, les graces, le jeune sais quoi, qui plait', are as necessary to adorn and introduce your intrinsic merit and knowledge, as the polish is to the diamond; which, without that polish, would never be worn, whatever it might weigh.
"Spare your sorrows on that score, my young friends," said a colonel, who listened patiently to the complaints around him; "we shall not see the dome of the Invalides for some time yet. Except the compagnie d'élite, I fancy few of us will figure on the Boulevards."
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