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This made Nell furious, and she said that in her opinion Jonkheer Brederode ought to be flattered if we were in the least nice to him, but she for one didn't intend to be. I was a little prejudiced against him, too, although I admired him very much when I saw him in the Prinzenhof at Delft, and afterwards at the Concours Hippique.
Without pride, I believe myself in a position to succeed what sportsmen call 'in condition. And just when I have only a few days to wait, behold me ruined forever." "Why forever?" "A man leaves his village for Paris to make a name for himself, and he returns only when bad luck or inability sends him back. And then it is only every four years that there is a 'concours' for admission.
"My God! is it possible?" she murmured in a tone that surprised Saniel. If there was sadness in this cry, there was also a sentiment that he did not understand. "On leaving the school I could continue to live at the Hotel du Senat, and, while giving lessons, prepare my 'concours'; now, after having reached a certain position, can I return to this life of poverty and study?
They were a funny contrast to the people who came for the Concours Hippique, and the Race Week. One saw then a great influx of automobiles there were balls at the Casino and many pretty, well-dressed women, of both worlds, much en evidence. The châtelains from the neighbouring châteaux appeared and brought their guests. For that one week Boulogne was quite fashionable.
"Holland has seen him do it before, but you have not. You will see him ride better than any one else in the jumping contests at the Concours Hippique at Scheveningen. It will be a fine show, but Brederode and his horses will be the best. My mother has a box. She will take you." "But I thought you were going to take us to The Hague and the Huis ten Bosch?" "That will be in the early morning.
To gain a hundred francs he will do anything; he makes money only for the pleasure of making it, for he has neither child nor relative." "Well, I promise to be on my guard as you advise. But, wicked as Caffie may be, I believe that I shall accept the concours that he offered me. Who knows what may happen in the short time that he gains for me?
"Knew what, Eileen?" "What I meant." "You meant that I am hors de concours." "I didn't!" "But I am, child. I was, long ago." She looked up: "Do you really think that, Captain Selwyn? If you do I am glad." He laughed outright. "You are glad that I'm safely past the spooning age?" he inquired, moving forward. She halted: "Yes.
Without pride, I believe myself in a position to succeed what sportsmen call 'in condition. And just when I have only a few days to wait, behold me ruined forever." "Why forever?" "A man leaves his village for Paris to make a name for himself, and he returns only when bad luck or inability sends him back. And then it is only every four years that there is a 'concours' for admission.
Side by side with the great lyric or dramatic celebrities that have won their first renown at the concours of the Conservatoire there is always some other pupil of immense promise, who does as well as, if not better than, the future star at the moment of the competition, but who afterward disappears into the mists of mediocrity or of oblivion.
It is a singular thing, by the way, that men as a whole continue to disbelieve in a woman's negative singular, that is, when one reflects that the majority of men have had at least one negative which has remained a negative, so far as they were concerned, all the woman's life. "I am aware," said M. de Chauxville, "that the rose has thorns. One reason why the violet is hors de concours."
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