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His hands were twitching nervously, his lips compressed, and his dilated pupils were blazing with anger, instead of triumph, as before. "Yes; a stranger, a clerk in the iron-works at Grancey, I think." "You think! you think!" cried Julien, fiercely, "why don't you have more definite information before you accuse Mademoiselle Vincart of such treachery?"
"Is not the Prince's consent required?" "You agree!" Grancey cried, embracing him joyfully. "As to the Prince, comrade," said he, "the sole difficulty is that he will grant anything to anybody. We must get his signature for which I admit it is delicate to ask him before any other applicant." Lecour's pulses sprang back to life. "Could the Princess assist us?" he inquired.
Returning on tiptoe, excited for the first time, he beckoned Grancey to accompany him and led the way with the greatest precaution to a long crack in the side of a hill, scarcely discernible without the closest scrutiny, through which the accents came quite audibly, and they caught sight of the objects below in a grey light.
We throw open the curacoa to the intelligence and industry of the assembled guests; we carry the right of the multitude to our host's cigars by a majority. C'est un farceur que notre bon petit cousin. Lespel says it is sailorlike to do something of this sort after a cruise. Nevil's Radicalism would have been clever anywhere out of Bevisham. Of all boroughs! Grancey Lespel knows it.
From Auberive, Praslay and Grancey, rendezvous were made in the woods of Charbonniere or Maigrefontaine; nothing was thought of but the exploits of certain marksmen, the number of pieces bagged, and the joyous outdoor breakfasts which preceded each occasion.
He took up a book, and presently a pencil from his pocket, then talked of the book to Cecilia's cousin; and leaving a paper-cutter between the leaves, he looked at Cecilia and laid the book down. She proceeded to conduct Mrs. Grancey Lespel to her room. 'I do admire Captain Beauchamp's cleverness; he is as good as a French romance! Mrs. Grancey exclaimed on the stairs. 'He fibs charmingly.
"To-morrow I will hear your choice concerning this commission horse, foot, or artillery?" One did not argue with Princesses partly because Princesses did not argue with one. He humbly retired, revolving an undefined notion of flight. By chance Grancey entered during the afternoon. "Homesick, just at the nick of fortune? Do you know that a sub-lieutenancy is vacant in my company?
I'll say for the Whigs, they would not be seen touting for Tories if they were not ghosts of Whigs. You are dead. There is no doubt of it. 'But, Grancey Lespel repeated, 'if there's no doubt about it, how is it I have a doubt about it? 'The Whigs preached finality in Reform. It was their own funeral sermon. 'Nonsensical talk!
Quitting Lecour, de Grancey stepped to the centre, and gave the word "Gentlemen of the Bodyguard, to your posts of honour!" and thus taking command of the detachment, who were gathered in a corner of the hall, he entered on his duty of disposing and inspecting them. No sooner was this completed than a rustling in the Oeil de Boeuf informed them that the King was passing.
There was an air of magnificence about the way in which he gave audience. He prevailed upon a married woman, who was pregnant by him, to abjure Christianity. It is true she was not a very respectable person, being the illegitimate daughter of my son's chief almoner, the Abbe de Grancey, who always kept a little seraglio.
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