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The young girls, French and English, who composed its classes, surveyed her in the beginning with distrust. Soon the youngest and wildest set, called Diables, accorded her affiliation, and in their company she managed to increase tolerably the anxieties and troubles of the under-mistresses. She was early initiated into the great secret, the traditionary legend of the convent.
"He is right, Auguste, and you are wrong; we are in his power; that is," added he, smiling, "if he believes there is any triumph in capturing such pauvres diables as ourselves."
But the charm that held together the confraternity of diables was a grand, long-cherished design, to which their best energy and ingenuity were devoted a secret, heroic-sounding enterprise, set forth as "the deliverance of the victim."
"Permit me, my lord; if your lordship continues to press your lordship's staff on the other scale, you will disturb the balance." His lordship grinned and removed his staff, and leaned on it. The cure politely but firmly objected to that too. "Mille diables! what am I to do with it, then?" cried the other. "Deign to hold it out so, my lord, wide of both scales."
You will find, in most good company, some people who only keep their place there by a contemptible title enough; these are what we call VERY GOOD-NATURED FELLOWS, and the French, 'bons diables'. The truth is, they are people without any parts or fancy, and who, having no will of their own, readily assent to, concur in, and applaud, whatever is said or done in the company; and adopt, with the same alacrity, the most virtuous or the most criminal, the wisest or the silliest scheme, that happens to be entertained by the majority of the company.
Along the journey the peasants, who held the Comte in loyal terror, greeted the procession with a respectful silence, congregating in the road to stare and chatter only when the amiable Quatre Diables had disappeared in the distance.
So two hours must have passed, and it seemed to me that the movement in the courtyards and in the Chateau grew less and less. Presently half a dozen huntsmen, leading their hounds, passed close to me, talking in loud and aggrieved tones. "Mille diables!" exclaimed one. "To think it is all off!" "Never have I known the like!" said another. "What has happened, my friends?"
The lady could not understand what he meant, until his introducer explained the mistake, observing, "Les diables des Anglais pensent toujours a leur Rosbif." In 1822 I saw this beautiful person for the first time. She was originally one of the figurantes at the opera at Vienna, and was at this time about fourteen years of age, and of delicate and graceful proportions.
'MILLE DIABLES! Are you aware, sir, that I am in possession of this house, and that no one harbours here without my permission? Guest? Hospitality? Bundle of fiddle-faddle! Lieutenant, call the guard! Call the guard! he continued passionately. 'Where is that ape of a sergeant? The Lieutenant rose to obey, but I lifted my hand. 'Gently, gently, Captain, I said. 'Not so fast.
If monsieur will be so good as to lend us his distinguished help, so that we may remove it from this hole " "Hole! Mille diables! It is a trench; a trench excavated with many pains in this tell. As for assistance, I give you none, none absolutely. You brought your aeroplane here without assistance: then remove it equally without assistance; immediately: already you waste too much time."
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