Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 11, 2025
Several versions of the contretemps with Herries were afloat immediately. All agreed in one point: Maurice Guest had been in an advanced stage of intoxication. A scuffle was said to have taken place in the deserted street; there had been tears, and prayers, and shrill accusing voices. In the version that reached Madeleine's cars, blows were mentioned.
"He's like a baby with his titty bottle," explained Emmy. "Now he'll be quiet again." Alf fidgeted a little. This contretemps had unnerved him. He was less sure of himself. "Well," he said at last, darkly. "What I came in about ... Quarter to eight, is it? By Jove, I'm late. That's telling Mr. Blanchard all the news.
Longing for her return, and yet dreading it, he gulped down the remainder of his dinner, and then went at once to his bedroom to be alone with his thoughts. This time the passages were lighted, and he suffered no exciting contretemps; yet the winding corridor was dim with shadows, and the last portion, from the bend of the walls onwards, seemed longer than he had ever known it.
This was a painful contretemps: he had lost his precious documents; he had given a false name; and he had rendered the manager supremely careless whether or not he recovered his stolen property.
Besides, in view of all the circumstances, it was his duty as a gentleman to show some concern for her condition after the accident and the disagreeable contretemps which followed it. Thus Bray! Alas, none of these possibilities occurred. He found the spring had simply lapsed into its previous unsuggestive obscurity, a mere niche in the mountain side that held only water!
"Even the untimely death of Lord Ferriby which might at first have appeared a contretemps. Cornish takes home the coffin by tonight's mail, I understand. Men may come, madame, and men may go but we go on for ever. We are still prosperous despite our friends. And Cornish is nonplussed. He does not know what to do next, and fate seems to be against him. He has no luck.
Uncomfortable from the contretemps, as well as from what she had now to do, and irritated at the tone in which his lordship had expressed the surprise he could not help feeling at sight of her so accompanied and attended, she had felt for a moment as if the best thing would be to break with him at once. But she was too just, had she not had too much regard for him, to do so.
The mere suggestion of such a contretemps was enough to make the Boers think twice before drawing near enough to be shot at. Belief in the existence of these mines was widespread. How far it was warranted, it is hard to say. The enemy had heard something of them, and burning though was his desire to blow up the diamonds he did not quite court a flight towards heaven in their company.
We see him only because of a contretemps. I think we must be very nice to him and persuade him to take us to London to-night." Selingman's shake of the head was final. "Dear young ladies," he said, "it was delightful to find you here. I came upon the chance, I admit, but who in Ostend would not be here between six and eight?
Had not the doctor in London told his assistant, Heureux, that Sir Hugh's sphere of usefulness was at an end, and that, in all probability, a contretemps would occur one which would in future save to "the syndicate" the sum of five thousand pounds per annum? Truth to tell, Bézard, director of the Sûreté, had telegraphed orders for the arrest of Sir Hugh and his daughter.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking