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His commanding officer, though a brave man, was illiterate, and a secretary was to him a necessary of life. Basile was not only useful, but agreeable; without any mean arts, or servile adulation, he pleased, by simply showing the desire to oblige, and the ability to serve. "Diable!" exclaimed the general one day, as he looked at Basile's plan of a town, which the army was besieging.
He did not wait to look at the prone figure, but made straight for the door. His business it was first to see whether his quarry were still in sight. All the other men were hustling each other in a hasty descent. "Que diable!" one of them said. "What is it now? A spy?"
We shall only say that the charm did not cease to act a single instant on the audience, and that it still lasted after the concert was ended. Let us add that Roger, our brilliant tenor, sang with his most expressive voice the beautiful prayer intercalated in Robert le Diable by the author himself at the debut of Mario at the Opera; that Mdlle.
The prospect of movement after long stagnation cheered Hamilton and fanned what neither of us would acknowledge a faint hope that Miriam might yet be alive in the north. I verily believe Eric would have started northward with restored courage had not our plans been thwarted by the sinister handiwork of Le Grand Diable.
The scenery of the story is aptly laid in the land of Robert le Diable. Poe’s description of the devil is, on the whole, fully in accord with the universally accredited conception of his ordinary appearance. His brutal hoofs and savage horns and beastly tail are all there, only discreetly hid under a dress which any gentleman might wear.
It contained La Mare au Diable, Francois le Champi, La Petite Fadette, and Les Maitres Sonneurs.
"M. de Carmainges, for three months I have loved like a madman her who lives there, and I have not yet had the happiness of hearing the sound of her voice." "Diable! you are not far advanced. But stay." "What is it?" "Did not some one whistle?" "Indeed, I think I heard something." A second whistle was now distinctly heard.
Every one hasn't the curiosity of a Jack-o'-Lantern." "Mais que diable allait-il faire dans cette galère! Bien; we must take the weather as it comes; sometimes a gale, and sometimes a calm. As he shows his own ensign so loyally, let us return the compliment, and show ours. Hoist the ensign there aft."
"You do as you please, then, with the Comte de Guiche, Malicorne?" "Except making money of him everything?" "Diable! the exception is annoying; but then, if instead of asking him for money, you were to ask " "What?" "Something important." "What do you call important?" "Well! suppose one of your friends asked you to render him a service?" "I would not render it to him." "Selfish fellow!"
Meantime, the whole energy of his intellect was set reflecting on the sort of lie which Edward would, by nature and the occasion, be disposed to swallow. He quitted the cab, and walked in the Park, and au diable to him there! the fool has done his work. It was now half-past ten. Robert, with a most heavy heart, had accomplished Rhoda's commands upon him.
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