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"Citizens, allow me to introduce to you my old friend, Citizen David Ritchie " "Milles diables!" cried the Citizen St. Gre, seizing me by the hand, "c'est mon cher ami, Monsieur Reetchie. Ver' happy you have this honor, Monsieur;" and snatching his wide-brimmed military cocked hat from his head he made me a smiling, sweeping bow. "What!" cried the General to me, "you know the Sieur de St.
Jumping up with a start, he beheld a crowd of people watching him, men in Sunday coats, men in shirt sleeves, ladies in light dresses, boys in knickerbockers and Norfolks, girls in pinafores, Chinamen in coats of many colours, many of the throng holding torches and lanterns. "Ah! mille diables!" he cried. "Keep back! This is not a penny theatre."
"Monsieur de Poincilit here, were he in a very bad temper, might exclaim, 'Mille diables! Why should not our excellent Fernando rail against the almost inconceivable fickleness which could be displayed by eleven times as many young ladies?" "I came out last time on the Orellana, and I don't even remember passing such a place," said Isobel.
They had never seen people travelling in a boat before on dry land. When they heard we were English all was explained: 'Ces diables d'Anglais sont capables de tout. While crossing the country in this fashion we passed a spot on the highroad where a man was getting ready to thresh his wheat.
For an account by a contemporary who firmly believed the charges brought against Grandier, consult Niau's "La Veritable Histoire des Diables de Loudun." This latter work is accessible in an English translation by Edmund Goldsmid. There have been drummers a plenty in all countries and all ages, but there surely has never been the equal of the drummer of Tedworth.
It was something to see LeNoir "run a log" across the river and back; that is, he would balance himself upon a floating log, and by spinning it round, would send it whither he would. At Murphy's question LeNoir stood listening with bent head and open mouth. Down the river came the sound of singing. "Don-no me! Ah oui! be dam! Das Macdonald gang for sure! De men from Glengarrie, les diables!
A man carrying a drum on his back began to run with all his might round the holy Sepulchre, and another running in the same manner struck it with two sticks; and when he was tired, another immediately took his place. "Il semble qu' on soit dans un enfer, et que ce soient tout autant de diables déchainès." But enough of this unedifying scene, of which the Abbé Geramb gives a similar account.
Ritchie tells me he found it at Madame Bouvet's, was it not, Monsieur?" Auguste looked at me. "Mille diables!" he said, and sat down again heavily. "Mr. Ritchie has returned it to your sister, a service which puts him heavily in our debt," said Monsieur de St. Gre. "Now, sir," he added to me, rising, "you have had a tiresome day.
'On ne pent rien manger, she said, 'sans que ces diables y touchent. This was quite true; but it was not the flies' fault that their parents were prolific, and that they had been hatched in a climate eminently conducive to their vigour and happiness. Their numbers and their voracity showed that they, too, were compelled by the struggle for life to be active and enterprising.
He bade you give me that message, the miserable old son of a spider! Quatre-vingt mille plats de diables aux truffes! Take my windows out of the frames, indeed! Let him try, Madame Duphôt that's all let him try!"
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