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After walking some distance, had to ascend a path, which leading along a dividing wall, brought us over the roofs of the Chinese houses in the town below, and reminded us of the position of "Le diable boiteux" of Le Sage, although I doubted if we could have gained as much information as that personage did, had we possessed his powers.
He then pushed down the Cele valley to Cabrerets near where it debouches into the Lot, and in 1383 he fortified the caves of Espagnac, Brengues, Marcillac, Sauliac, and built the chateau du Diable at Cabrerets. The Count d'Armagnac sent troops to dislodge him, but failed.
Anyone well born like you and me, with a little practice, can talk like Gorgio dukes and earls. I've been among them and I know. I've had my friends among them, too. I've got the hang of it all. It's no good to me, and I don't want it. It's all part of a set piece. There's no independence in that life; you live by rule. Diable! I know.
Sacré bleu! those scoundrels of English to menace the uniformed patriots of the French republic! The second in command drew a revolver, and pointing at the hairy breast of the leader of the Noa-Noans, shouted: "Au le vapeur! Diable! What, you whisky-filled pigs, you will resist the law?"
She asked a great many questions about Jolie Manon; and she laughed till she cried while she described, in dramatic style, how you crazed the poor bird with imitations, till she called you Joli petit diable" "How I wish I had known mamma then! How funny she must have been!" exclaimed Lila. "I think you have heard some performances of hers that were equally funny," rejoined Mrs. Delano.
The wind fluttered her hair, which was tied low down with a ribbon in the mode named "a la diable" by some French wit with a sore heart in an old man's breast. For none other could have so aptly described it. "All chance, mademoiselle," he answered, looking over her head toward the river. "And it would have been the same had it been only Marie or Marie and Jean in the boat with you?"
She makes her preparations to be irresistibly fascinating to Adolphe. Women possess a power of mimicking pudicity, a knowledge of secrets which might be those of a frightened dove, a particular register for singing, like Isabella, in the fourth act of Robert le Diable: "Grace pour toi! Grace pour moi!" which leave jockeys and horse trainers whole miles behind. As usual, the Diable succumbs.
Par les mille cornes d'u diable, I cannot whip him but I can kill him and if I went and the thing happens which I guess is going to happen " "Qui? Surely you will tell me " "Yes, I will tell you. Jacques Dupont knows that Elise has never stopped loving the Yellow-back. I do not believe she has ever tried to hide it from him. Why should she?
"Diable!" said the sergent de ville, stroking his moustache, and staring fiercely about him. "Did no one see him go?" There was a chorus of exclamations a rush to the inner salon to the door to the street. But the stranger was nowhere in sight; and, which was still more incomprehensible, no one had seen him go!
"Tells 'em that, does he?" said the father, his sea-blue eyes suddenly clouding over. "That he does; and says he'd take up the inshore fishing, if he'd the money to spend: and they should be supplied regular with crabs and shrimps and such; and then drops a word that poor André he's gettin' old, and what with being lame, and one thing and another, what can you expect, and such blathers!" "Diable!
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