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"Men that are going to see law and order kept in Lebanon," he answered. A few hours later Fleda slowly made her way homeward through the woods on the Manitou side of the Sagalac. Leaving Ingolby's house, she had seen men from the ranches and farms and mines beyond Lebanon driving or riding into the town, as though to a fair or fete-day.
We will sign the contract on Sunday next, and the wedding shall be on the following Saturday, my wife's fete-day." "It is alright," said the Baroness to her daughter, who stood glued to the window. "Your suitor and your father are embracing each other." On going home in the evening, Wenceslas found the solution of the mystery of his release.
Timéa did not refuse him that privilege possibly she would have allowed even more; but the widow's cap stood in the way, and Timéa felt it. "Do you want me to exchange this cap for another?" "From that day I shall begin to live again." "Let us set apart for it my own fête-day, which every one knows." "Oh, but that is so far off." "Don't be alarmed, there is a St.
"Yes, for you." "This is the thing you were working at last night?" "The same." "You finished it this morning?" "I did." "You commenced it with the intention that it should be mine?" "Undoubtedly." "And offered on my fete-day?" "Yes." "This purpose continued as you wove it?" Again I assented.
"I announced my departure," writes Diderot, "for next Tuesday. At the first word I saw the faces both of mother and daughter fall. The child had a compliment for my fête-day all ready, and it would not do to let her waste the trouble of having learnt it. The mother had projected a grand dinner for Sunday. Well, we arranged everything perfectly.
On rising from table I stayed among them and played cards instead of going out. I saw them all off between eleven and twelve: I was charming, and if you only knew with whom; what physiognomies, what folk, what talk!" Another time the child, whispering in his ear, asks why her mother bade her not remind him that the morrow was the mother's fête-day.
She spoke with all her brusque petulance in arms again; she hated that he should imagine she had sacrificed her fete-day to Leon Ramon, because the artist-trooper was dear to him; she hated him to suppose that she had waited there all the hours through on the chance that he would find her at her post, and admire her for her charity.
Each day till the 25th was to be a fete-day in the town and neighbourhood; and of these days the hot 22nd was one. Among these friends and well-wishers were the whites upon all the plantations in the neighbourhood of the town.
The day of the interment is a grand fête-day; relations and friends are invited; they drink, they dance, and they sing all night in the hut where the child died. But I perceive that the superstitions of the Indians are drawing me from my subject. I shall have occasion, further on, to describe the manners and customs of these singular people.
But overnight the soldier-king had sent word that Brussels must not oppose the invaders; and at the gendarmerie the civil guard, reluctantly and protesting, some even in tears, turned in their rifles and uniforms. The change came at ten in the morning. It was as though a wand had waved and from a fête-day on the Continent we had been wafted to London on a rainy Sunday.
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