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They all knew that something had happened, that something had entered the life of the old professor and changed it, but not one of them attempted to pry into his secret. "Ma foi," said Pinac, "he shall tell himself if he wants to. If not, he shall not!" Fico's reply was characteristic of that Italian's sunny disposition, and it inverted a familiar saying.
Faith, you have descended, sir, like an agreeable meteor, upon two of the most scandalously henpecked husbands in all the universe. In fact, you will not find a gentleman at Ingilby save Mr. Erwyn, perhaps but is an abject slave to his wife, and in consequence most abjectly content." "You have guests, then?" said de Soyecourt. "Ma foi, it is unfortunate.
The Duke breathed hard, and opened and closed the hand which he stretched forth into space as if to grasp the city he beheld. "Rolf," said he, abruptly, "thou knowest, no doubt, the wealth of the London traders, one and all; for, foi de Gaillaume, my gentil chevalier, thou art a true Norman, and scentest the smell of gold as a hound the boar!"
On the envelope my father has written Hillard's name and "The Scarlet Letter," showing with what interest he preserved this friend's criticism and praise. On the other side of the envelope is written, "Foi, Foi, Faith." No one ever was more faithful to, and consequently ever had more faith in, his friends than my father. BOSTON, March 28, 1850.
We shall trot our horses, my friends, across this pleasant valley, for, by Our Lady! a breath of God's fresh air is right welcome after such a sight." "We hoped to snare a falcon," said he presently, "but we netted a carrion-crow. Ma foi! but there are men whose hearts are tougher than a boar's hide.
He was enjoying himself much in Paris, his dangers, his successes, his biting his thumb at the power of the League. To be killed at his post was nothing, but to be bundled away from it to inglorious safety, that stuck in his gorge. For a moment he actually hesitated. Then he began to laugh at his own hesitation. "Well, ma foi! what do I expect?
"Why so?" "Ma foi! we have a pretty general to fight under this Charles II.! Worcester gave us good proofs of that." "But he will no longer have to deal with Cromwell, monsieur." "But he will have to deal with Monk, who is quite as dangerous.
Some little revenge still!" The count touched the arm of the musing usurer, "J'ai bien joue mon role, n'est ce pas?" "Your part! Ah, but, my dear count, I do not quite understand it." "Ma foi, you are passably dull. I had just been landed in France, when a letter from L'Estrange reached me. It was couched as an invitation, which I interpreted to the duello. Such invitations I never refuse.
May I ask how and when? "'Austerlitz, December 2. The order of four o'clock, dated from Reygern, says, "The Imperial Guard will follow closely on the track of the Russians." "'In that case, sir, said she, 'I cannot dispute his Majesty's orders. I shall dance the fifth with you." "And the Russian, what said he?" "Ma foi!
"Ma foi," said Franz, "it would be the easiest thing in the world; for I feel eagle's wings springing out at my shoulders, and with those wings I could make a tour of the world in four and twenty hours." "Ah, yes, the hashish is beginning its work.
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