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Carewe had spoken with the most undeniable air of meaning what he said. Yet she knew that the Incroyable would come again. Also, with hot cheeks pressed into her pillow, Miss Betty had identified the young man in the white hat, that dark person whose hand she had far too impetuously seized in both of hers. Aha!
"I think there is a girl sick here," said Peter. "May I see her?" The woman stared still harder, and he thought she was going to refuse him admission, but at length she gave way. "Entrez," she said. "Je pense que vous savez le chambre. Mais, le bouquet c'est incroyable." Peter went up the stairs and knocked at the door. A voice asked who was there, and he smiled because he could not say.
He had gone through a terrible shock and he had come home ill, very ill, quite changed. Her voice faltering she said: "What are the symptoms?" "Monsieur's memory is so bad, madame. He forgets. Only to-day, as ze ship came up ze harbor, I ask monsieur if he expect madame to meet us at ze dock. C'est vraiment incroyable!
In ten minutes, breathless, she had reached the corset department, demanded an 'Incroyable' of the correct size, and bought it. There was no dissatisfaction in the corset department. 'Shall we send it, miss? 'Madam, said Lily proudly. 'No, I'll take it. 'Yes, madam.
No, no, no, M'sieur thanking you all the same." "You are very amiable, Madame, to say so." "You are very polite, M'sieur, to think so much of a trifle." "Nothing is a trifle, Madame, where a lady is concerned. At least, so we Englishmen consider." "Bah! M'sieur is not English?" "Indeed, Madame, I am." "Mais, mon Dieu! c'est incroyable. Suzette brother Jacques André, do you hear this?
Lily, whose manifold misfortunes had not quenched her interest in the 'Incroyable' corset, opened her parcel, and found that the corset was not an 'Incroyable' at all, but an inferior substitute, with no proper belted band, and of a shape to startle even a Brighton bathing-woman! The change must have been effected by the assistant in making up the parcel. 'Well!
So Dolomieu, speaking of the depravation incroyable des moeurs which accompanied the earthquake of 1783, recounts the case of a householder of Polistena who was pinned down under some masonry, his legs emerging out of the ruins; his servant came and took the silver buckles off his shoes and then fled, without attempting to free him.
He laughed, and pointed to where, behind him on the ground, lay a long gray cloak, upon which had been tossed a white mask. "I'm on my way to the masquerade;" he answered, with an airy gesture in the direction of the violins. "I'm an Incroyable, you see; and I had the costume made from my recollection of a sketch of your great-uncle. I saw it a long time ago in your library."
Moi, aussi, je veux la gloire!" Her dark eyes flamed into passion, for a moment she looked almost beautiful. Adderley stared languidly at her as he would have stared at the heroine of an exciting scene on the stage, with indolent, yet critical interest. "Goblin incroyable!" he sighed "You are so new! so fresh!"
The Marquis knew that, by the lamentable story of her dismissed maid who had come to him with hysterical tears, declaring that "Madame" had suddenly developed a "humeur incroyable" and had gone away alone, alone, save for a little dusky-skinned Arab boy whom she had once brought away from Biskra and had trained as an attendant, her "gouvernante" and companion, Madame Bozier, and her old butler who had known her from childhood.
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