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She raised her hand impetuously and began to paint again. But suddenly a tear dropped on to her knee. She brushed it away, and her wild smile broke. 'Bah! she said, 'what a scene, what a pair of children! What was it all about? I vow I haven't an idea. You are an excellent farceur. Monsieur David! One can see well that you have read George Sand.
"Get along with you, M'sieur Müller," she said. "You're always playing the farceur! The parcel was brought by a man who looked like a stonemason." "And nobody has called?" "Nobody, except M'sieur Richard." "Monsieur Richard's visits are always gratifying and delightful may the diable fly away with him!" said Müller. "What did dear Monsieur Richard want to-day, Madame Duphôt?"
"What is this?" cried the crowd, as Monseigneur Bauer, the bishop in partibus infidelium of some place or other, now came riding along with his staff. He held up his two fingers, and turned his hand right and left. His pastoral blessing was, however, but a half success. The women crossed themselves, and the men muttered "farceur."
Were it not that he is a farceur, born to write knock-about comedies his plays, by the way, might be termed knock-about comedies of the middle-class mind he would never have got a hearing for his common-place blasphemies, and cheap intellectual antics.
Oh, that African sun sets things growing! I'm lieutenant, too." "Does the African sun also influence your growth in the line of promotion?" asked Jack, grinning. "Same old farceur, too!" mused Georges. "Now, what the mischief are you doing here? Oh, you are staying at Morteyn?" "Yes." "I er I used to visit another house er near by. You know the Marquis de Nesville?" asked Georges, innocently.
For he was in the early steps of his career, and if his lady, holding to pride, despised him as, he was tortured into the hypocrisy of confessing, she justly might, why, then, unless he was the sport of a farceur, here seemed a gilding of the path of duty: he could be serviceable to friends.
"It is the Captain Christian, of the Intelligence Bureau," said the waiter, with proud alacrity. "A famous officer, brave as a rabbit, un fier lapin, and one of our best clients. So drole, too, such a farceur and mimic. M'sieur would be ravished to hear his imitations." "But he looks like a German; and his name!" "Ah, he is from Alsace.
Consistency to human nature is not insisted on in plot, but there must be startling and unexpected incidents, mechanical devices, and a great deal of what is called "business," which clearly has as much relation to literature as have the steps of a farceur in a clog-dance.
Evan stared a moment at the wretched object, whose dream of meeting a beneficent old gentleman had brought him to be the sport of a cynical farceur. He had shivers on his own account, seeing something of himself magnified, and he loathed the fellow, only to feel more acutely what a stigma may be. 'It 's a case I can't advise in, he said, as gently as he could.
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