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"That anarchist!" said Crillon, in disgust; "loathsome notions, now, aren't they? Ah! who'll rid us of him and his alcoholytes?" he adds, as he offers me his hand. "Good-night. I'm always saying to the Town Council, 'You must give 'em clink, I says, 'that gang of Bolshevists, for the slightest infractionment of the laws against drunkenness. Yes, indeed!
"Si elle etait reine avec quelle grâce elle règnerait," said Talleyrand after one of their witty jousts, in which he was not always victor. "She charms by her eyes while she slays with her tongue," said Count Crillon: if her unsparing repartee inspired wholesome fear, she disarmed by her tact, sportive manner and childlike laughter.
James Murray was governor of Minorca, which was besieged by the Spaniards, and was offered a vast bribe by the Duc de Crillon, the commander of the besiegers, to give up Port St. Don't trouble yourself about the third set of "Galuzzi." They are to be had here now, and those for whom I intended them can buy them.
"Old Heinz has gone to his Moki, I guess, and Aubrey's gone to collect more dope at the Crillon. He says four in the morning when the drunks come home is the prime time for a newspaper man." "And the Monkish man?" "Search me." The streets were full of men and girls hurrying to work. Everything sparkled, had an air of being just scrubbed.
A company of the guards, followed by Crillon himself, a hundred and twenty of the Swiss, and as many of the Scotch guards, commanded by Larchant, and all the members of the royal household who accompanied the king in his excursions, mules, coffers, and domestic servants, formed a numerous army, the files of which followed the windings of the road leading from the river to the summit of the hill.
The king looked puzzled, the Duke of Nevers smiled, the Duke of Mercoeur laughed aloud. Crillon cried boisterously, 'Good hit! and the majority, who wished no better than to divine the winning party, grinned broadly, whether they would or no.
We've got to look ahead and have a broad spirit, as Monsieur Joseph says. Tolerantness! We all want it, eh?" "You're a good sort," I say. "I'm a man, like everybody," proudly replies Crillon. "It's not that I hold by accustomary ideas; I'm not an antiquitary, but I don't like to single-arise myself. If I'm a botcher in life, it's cos I'm the same as others no less," he says, straightening up.
Then she says to me, "Since you came back, you've been worrying your head too much." Crillon was on our heels. He stands in front of me, and looks displeased. "I was listening to you just now," he says; "I must tell you that since you came back you have the air of a foreigner a Belgian or an American. You say intolantable things. We thought at first your mind had got a bit unhinged.
Take him to the closet without delay, my friend, and announce him. I will be answerable for him. But the secretary shrugged his shoulders up to his ears. 'It is quite impossible, M. de Crillon, he said gravely. 'Quite impossible at present. 'Impossible! Chut! I do not know the word, Crillon retorted rudely. 'Come, take him at once, and blame me if ill comes of it. Do you hear?
"That is not what is wanted; as leader of the League, he is guilty of high treason." "Very well, sir; then let him be tried and executed." "But, Crillon, nothing is less certain than his conviction in a court of law; he must be struck down unexpectedly." "Sir, I am a soldier, not an assassin." The king did not persist, but merely charged Crillon, who promised, to keep the proposal secret.
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