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She noted every movement of his body: the graceful way in which he talked with his hands, using his fingers to accentuate his words, and the way in which he shrugged his shoulders the shrug of a Frenchman, although not a drop of their blood could be found in his veins and in the quick lifting of the hand and the sidelong glance of the eye, all so characteristic of Richard when some new thought or theory reached his brain for the first time.
The accommodating Frenchman showed him a good many samples of South African, Brazilian, and Indian stones, and explained to him the various tests which were used to determine their value. Brett had no special object in seeking this information.
For a Frenchman never hates or loves as much as he thinks he does. "Well," said the baroness, practically, "what is it?" "At the club," explained Lory, "I found a letter and a telegram from Corsica." "Both from Denise?" asked the baroness, rather bluntly. "Both from Mademoiselle Lange. See how things hinge upon a trifling chance how much, we cannot tell!
'M. de Villeneuve arranged to send me a wire when he was ready for our men, and I can't well send them sooner. 'Ah, said the Captain, 'but it seems to me the Frenchman is inclined to dawdle. Don't you think that if we went over it might hurry him up a bit?
But the Frenchman caught at the meaning of the whole scene at once, and interposed himself hastily between the parrot and its assailant. "Hé! my Methuselah," he cried, in French, stroking the exultant bird with his hand, and smoothing its ruffled feathers, "did he try to choke you, then? Did he try to get over you? That was a brave bird!
But daylight began to break just as we were about Danskin, and my curiosity to see the stranger's face to make out who he was or what he was, or whether he was a Frenchman, or one of our own countrymen was becoming altogether insupportable. But, just with the first peep of day, I got a glimpse of his countenance. I started back for full five yards the musket dropped out of my hands! "Robie!
With this purpose Schiller was in hearty accord, as can be seen from his verses 'To Goethe', written in January, 1800, in which he set forth his dramatic confession of faith. The Frenchman, he declared with unction, could by no means serve them as a model; there must be no bringing back of the old fetters. The Germans had advanced to a new era, and demanded now a faithful picture of nature.
"Where is it? Where?" said Pierre. "There! There!" shouted the Frenchman at the window, pointing to the garden at the back of the house. "Wait a bit I'm coming down." And a minute or two later the Frenchman, a black-eyed fellow with a spot on his cheek, in shirt sleeves, really did jump out of a window on the ground floor, and clapping Pierre on the shoulder ran with him into the garden.
Robert was at last able to see a black dot there with his unassisted eyes, and he knew that it must be a ship. "She's going almost due south," said the captain, "and in two hours we should overhaul her." "Why do you wish to overhaul her?" asked Robert. "She may be a privateer, a Frenchman, or even a pirate, and if so we must give the alarm to other peaceful craft like ourselves in these waters."
So he went on: 'Is it an idea of your mother's that you should marry some person here? He gave her a chance to reply, but still she was silent, and he continued: 'Do you mind telling me this? Could it ever be an idea of your own? 'Do you mean some Frenchman? Raymond smiled. 'Some protégé of Madame de Brives.
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