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As my mother had predicted, the gentlemen with the ragged lace tried in vain to affect indifference to the good things on the buffet, till they had done their devoir by me as their hostess.
"Dans cet etat affreux, que faire? . . . Mon devoir." Victoire courageously proceeded to Madame de Fleury's, and desired to see her. "D'abord c'est impossible madame is dressing to go to a concert," said Francois. "Cannot you leave your message?"
I have orders to return with him to headquarters, where I trust his acceptance of parole will enable me to avail myself of your introduction to show him what courtesy our camp life admits, in atonement for the execution of my present unpleasant devoir." "I shall esteem your acquaintance the more highly," answered Harold, "that you know so well to blend your soldiership with kindness.
He thinks that this infringes the American doctrine of not entangling ourselves in the affairs of foreign states, and will prevent the ratification of the convention by the United States Senate. This aroused earnest debate, Captain Mahan insisting upon the omission of the word "devoir," and Dr.
"Heureux celui qui n'est forcee de sacrifier personne a son devoir." "You know," said Marguerite the next morning, as she and Cornish rode quietly along the sandy roads, beneath the shade of the pines "you know, papa is such a jolly, simple old dear he doesn't understand women in the least." "And do you call yourself a woman nowadays?" inquired Cornish. "You bet.
"Yes, I have indeed marked the manner in which this knight does his devoir, and he had ere now tasted your bounty but that I have also marked his audacious presumption."
The overseer is safe; now turn we to other matters." "Well, what shall be done?" said Jaspar, rising suddenly and paying his devoir to the brandy-bottle. "I will tell you," replied the attorney, rising from his chair and coolly imitating Jaspar's example at the bottle. Then throwing himself lazily upon the sofa "I will tell you. The case is not desperate yet.
In England, he could comfort himself by the reflection that "he had been taken while loyally doing his devoir," without any misgiving as to his conduct in the previous years, when he had prepared the disaster of Agincourt by wasteful feud. This unconsciousness of the larger interests is perhaps most happily exampled out of his own mouth.
I must see you through the enchanted dell it is only a step and then I shall return with a good conscience, like a worthy knight, having done my devoir honestly. She looked down the dell, with a dark and painful glance, and then she said a few words of hesitating apology and acquiescence, and in a few minutes more they parted at the little wicket of Redman's Farm. They shook hands.
'Help is needed there, cried the kind heart just now, and then the blood did its 'devoir'. The act followed the desire as the sound follows the blow of the hammer, the thunder the flash of lightning. Well for the castle that is ruled by such a mistress!
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