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"I am here to protect you against his gallantry." This time Nick received the glance, and quailed before it. "And who par exemple is to protect me against you, Monsieur?" she asked in the lowest of voices. "You forget that I, too, am unprotected and vulnerable, Mademoiselle," he answered. Her face was hidden again, but not for long. "How did you come?" she demanded presently.
"Oh, they do! but sometimes the dulness that an intelligent society has ordained as the classic accompaniment to social smiles, gets the better of a select few Helen par exemple." It frequently happened that Hadria and Miss Du Prel came across Lady Engleton and her guests, in the Priory garden. From being accidental, the meetings had become intentional.
"Par exemple!" cries Monsieur Jules. "The enemy dares to attack us in our own lines!" "Bolt the door, and let him knock till he's tired," suggested one. "Open it suddenly, and deluge him with water!" cried another. "Tar and feather him!" proposed a third.
It may be all well enough for married people, who, from the mere fact of being married, are always entitled to certain consideration, put- -par exemple into a bed-room, a little larger than a dog kennel, and accommodated with a looking-glass, that does not distort one's features like a paralytic stroke.
Of course," noting a slight contraction of the eyebrows, "if ze service was of long time, and to ze most far-away point, some abatement could be posseeble. If, par exemple, it was to St. Malo, St. Servan, Paramé, Cancale spéciale, Dieppe petite, Dinard, and ze others, the sum of nine francs would be quite sufficient."
"M. de Beaujeu marcha donc, et sous ses ordres M. de Ligneris et moi. Il attaqua avec beaucoup d'audace mais sans nulle disposition; notre première décharge fut faite hors de portée; l'ennemi fit la sienne de plus près, et dans le premier instant du combat, cent miliciens, qui faisaient la moitié de nos Français lâchèrent honteusement le pied en criant 'Sauve qui peut. Deux cadets qui depuis ont été faits officiers autorisaient cette fuite par leur exemple. Ce mouvement en arrière ayant encouragé l'ennemi, il fit retentir ses cris de Vive le Roi et avança sur nous
"In these crowded places, Madame," said he, in his fluent French, "one is scarcely responsible for an impoliteness. I beg ten thousand pardons, however. I hope I have not hurt you?" "Ma foi! no, M'sieur. It would take more than that to hurt me!" "Nor injured your dress, I trust, Madame?" "Ah, par exemple! do I wear muslins or gauzes that they should not bear touching?
The relation between you and me, PAR EXEMPLE? 'Yes, for example, cried the Italian. 'That which is between men and women ! 'That is non-social, said Birkin, sarcastically. 'Exactly, said Gerald. 'Between me and a woman, the social question does not enter. It is my own affair. 'A ten-pound note on it, said Birkin. 'You don't admit that a woman is a social being? asked Ursula of Gerald.
I guess if you told her some things about yourself she'd begin to see that her husband wasn't so far wrong about you." "Par exemple!" said Madame von Marwitz with a short laugh. She raised herself to give her pillow a blow and turning on her side and contemplating more directly her ancient monitress she said, "I sometimes wonder what I keep you here for." "I do, too, sometimes," said Mrs.
Meanwhile Darrell and Harman stood side by side near the doorway of the ballroom, looking in when the crowd allowed. "A strange sight," said Harman. "Perhaps they take it too seriously." "Ah! that is our English upper class," said Darrell, with a sneer. "Is there anything they take lightly? par exemple! It seems to me they carry off this amusement better than most.
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