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Updated: June 13, 2025
Yet, I recognized the justice of the punishment. Bravery had failed twice; it was time to be humble. "I am sorry, Dehra," I said. "Of course you are, sir, very sorry that I saw you. And so was I," she added. "Was?" I echoed. "It gave me un mauvais quart d'heure." "No longer than that?" tasked. "No; it lasted only until I had you to myself on the terrace, a little later." "And then?" I queried.
Carruthers made profuse inquiries as to my comforts for the drive, in a tone colder than ever, and insisted upon my drinking some cherry brandy. Such fussing is quite unlike his usual manner, so I suppose he, too, felt it was a tiresome quart d'heure. Lord Robert did not hide his concern; he came up to me and took my hand while Christopher was speaking to the footman who was going with me.
While this single car flies out of Paris, a "mauvais quart d'heure" awaits Ernesto de Villa Rocca, at the hands of Natalie. Bounding from her seat, she cries, "Imbecile fool, you have ruined both of us! The girl is lost now!" In an hour the Italian evolves a new plan. Marie Berard shall herself find and abduct the child!
Nobody would ever have believed her a day older than twenty-five, no one, that is to say, who had not watched youth ebb from her face and leave it grey and waste with premature winter, as Lanyard had that morning when he told her of the death of de Lorgnes in the restaurant of the Buttes Montmartre. Liane herself had long since put quite out of mind that mauvais quart d'heure.
"You'd go for him now, just the same, I believe!" "I would and a bit extra. Because of you." She sighed. "Oh yes, it was a mauvais quart d'heure of the first order. And coming on the top of your crushing letter " He captured her hand. Their eyes met and softened. "No, Roy," she said, gently but inexorably releasing her fingers. "We've got to keep our heads to-day, somehow."
That audacity answers often happily enough, especially with the timid and inexperienced, but the professional gamblers tell you mournfully that they sometimes meet an opponent with equal nerve and a longer purse; then comes the fatal moment when the cards must be shown, and then le quart d'heure de Rabelais.
May I ask the name of the firm who executed the alterations?" "I really couldn't tell you, sir," answered Horace, who was beginning to understand how very bad a mauvais quart d'heure can be. "You can't tell me!" exclaimed the Professor. "You order these extensive, and I should say expensive, decorations, and you don't know the firm you selected to carry them out!"
As we knew several of them personally, we were doubly interested. Preparations for our tour in the Brda We start Where it is not good to be giddy A trying ride Our inn Nocturnal episodes The journey continued Pleasant surroundings The Montenegrin quart d'heure Arrival in Kolašin We meet the Governor Visiting The Band of Good Hope The Crown Prince's birthday We are ashamed.
Even if players and bills were duly shielded from observation, the mauvais quart d'heure would be accurately revealed by the sudden rush for the sledges, which have been hanging in a swarm about the door, according to the usual convenient custom of Vanka, wherever lighted windows suggest possible patrons.
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