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He made it shorter: "He means that Honoré Grandissime loves another woman." "'Tis a lie!" she exclaimed, a better command of English coming with the momentary loss of restraint. The apothecary thought a moment and then decided to speak. "I do not think so," he quietly said. "'Ow you know dat?" She, too, spoke quietly, but under a fearful strain.
They leaped into it. A human figure swerved from the onset of the Creole and ran toward the bow of the boat, and in an instant more would have been in the river. "Stop!" said Frowenfeld, seizing the unresisting f.m.c. firmly by the collar. Honoré Grandissime smiled, partly at the apothecary's brief speech, but much more at his success. "Let him go, Mr. Frowenfeld," he said, as he came near.
"Citizen Fusilier," he said, looking first down at the floor and then up into the inquirer's face, "on my assurance that he is not only a native Creole, but a Grandissime " "It is not possible!" exclaimed Agricola. " a Grandissime of the purest blood, will you pledge me your aid to liberate him from his danger, 'right or wrong'?" "Will I? H-why, certainly! Who is he?" "Citizen it is Sylves "
"I am not a young man, sir!" "I wonder who the fellow was," continued Doctor Keene, as he readjusted the ripped sleeve. "That is my affair, sir; I know who it was." "And yet she insists," M. Grandissime was asking Frowenfeld, standing with his leg thrown across the celestial globe, "that I knocked her down intentionally?" Frowenfeld, about to answer, was interrupted by a rap on the door.
"The country's chill-day," said Doctor Keene; "dumb chill, hot fever." "The excitement is intense," said Frowenfeld. "It seems we are not to be granted suffrage yet; but the Creoles have a way of casting votes in their mind. For example, they have voted Honoré Grandissime a traitor; they have voted me an encumbrance; I hear one of them casting that vote now."
At the mouth of an alley, in the dim light of the streep lamp, stood the dark figure of Honoré Grandissime, f.m.c., holding up the loosely hanging form of a small man, the whole front of whose clothing was saturated with blood. "Why, Charlie Keene! Let him down again, quickly quickly; do not hold him so!" "Hands off," came in a ghastly whisper from the shape. "Oh, Chahlie, my boy "
"Clotilde, dear, I should be glad if you would put the fire before the screen; it is so much too warm." She pushed her chair back and shaded her face with her hand. "I think the warmer is growing weather outside, is it is it not?" The struggles of a wounded bird could not have been more piteous. Monsieur Grandissime sought to speak.
Anna, Anna! what a brave and happy half-and-half of Creoles and "Americans" do your moist eyes beam down upon: here a Canonge and there an Ogden a Zacherie a Fontennette Willie Geddes Tom Norton a Fusilier! Nat Frellsen a Tramontana a Grandissime! and a Grandissime again!
Valentine Grandissime, of Tchoupitoulas, goes quite down to the bottom of the steps and leans against the balustrade. He is a large, broad-shouldered, well-built man, and, as he stands smoking a cigar, with his black-stockinged legs crossed, he glances at the sky with the eye of a hunter or, it may be, of a sailor.
Retain Fausse Rivière and its wealth, and save the Grandissimes; surrender Fausse Rivière, let the Grandissime estates go, and save the Nancanous. That was the whole dilemma. "Let me see," said M. Grandissime. "You have a mortgage on one of our Golden Coast plantations. Well, to be frank with you, I was thinking of that when you came in.
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