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"Gone! all gone!" said Lady Geraldine; "and there they are, making their way very fast down to the temple of Folly! Lady Kilrush, you know, is so ba-a-ashful, she could not possibly stay to receive nos hommages. I love to laugh at affectation.
You, who have lived so long at Paris, who speak our language in all its shades of elegance; you, who have divined all our secrets of pleasing, who have caught our very air, "Et la grace, encore plus belle que la beaute;" you, who are absolutely a French woman, and a Parisian, what a sensation you will produce at Petersburg! Quels succes vous attendent! Quels hommages!
"I shall make 'mes hommages' in the morning," said the courier, as he drove off at full speed to deliver his despatches, and left me to my own devices to perform a character, without even being able to guess what it might be. My passport, too, the only thing that could throw any light upon the affair, he had taken along with him, promising to have it vised, and save me any trouble.
The subterranean barracks and railway have ended forever the rise of the scum, the reign of the canaille and its barricades." "Adieu, my dear Hennequin. My respectful hommages a Madame."
He begged the ladies would forgive him if, from feelings of delicacy and a sense of the respect due to a great sorrow, he did not, before leaving Paris, which he was about do to probably for a long time, personally present to them 'ses hommages attristes'. Then followed a few lines in which he spoke of the pleasant recollections he should always retain of the hospitality he had enjoyed under M. de Nailles's roof, in a way that gave them clearly to understand that he had no expectation of ever entering their family on a more intimate footing.
The only civilized person was a large black baker's dog, who, like Gil Blas's first travelling acquaintance, seemed free of the house, and did the honours of the supper to us with an assiduity as disinterested, "Ah, messieurs," said his civil master, when we stept across the street in the morning, to return the dog's visit in form, "je suis charmé que vous trouvez l'Abri si beau; je suis au desespoir qu'il ne soit pas chez lui a present, mais je vais le chercher partout afin qu'il vous fasse ses hommages."
It was a large photograph of Jules Defourcambault, bearing the words: "À Miss Irene Wheeler. Hommages respectueux de J.D.F." "You won't!" he exclaimed, incredulous, shocked. He thought: "She is mad!" "Yes, I shall." There were hundreds of beautiful objects in the place, and she chose a banal photograph of a despicable creature whom she detested. "Why don't you take one of her portraits?
It had been agreed that if there was to be peace, he was to conclude his letter with "Mes hommages a la charmante Mademoiselle Charlotte": if war, the charmante was to be omitted. He ended his letter, which made not the smallest allusion to politics or public events, with "Mes hommages a Mademoiselle Charlotte," and we set out for Edinburgh.
He appeared in the tightly-buttoned frock-coat of civil life, with a minute disc of some civic decoration in his button hole, and an incredibly tall chimney-pot hat. He came to render his respectueux hommages to the maîtresse-femme who had conducted her business within the four corners of the law, "sans avoir maille
Le courant protectionniste se prononce avec une force irresistible en ce moment. Je vous prie d'offrir mes hommages a Madame et a Mademoiselle Reeve, et de me croire Votre bien affectionne, From M. B. St.-Hilaire Paris, 19 octobre. Cher Monsieur Reeve, J'ai recu le numero de la Revue d'Edimbourg, et je vous en remercie.
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