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'Yes, he responded caressingly, 'I heard his parting words, "l'affaire est assez grave mais courage, et bonne espérance." 'Is that all you heard? she demanded, bending the level challenge of her brows still lower, and snaking away her form from his embrace as if she feared it. 'I heard no more, said Paul. 'Ah, well! she answered in a sudden lassitude.
The pity of it is that it has failed. Sir George, I go to Paris to-night. I offer you a safe conduct if you care to accompany me. L'affaire Poynton does not exist any more." "Can you give me ten minutes to change my clothes?" Duncombe asked eagerly. "No more," De Bergillac answered. "I will get rid of our friend here." There was a knock at the door. Groves entered with coffee.
"Undoubtedly," Duncombe answered. "The advice you gave me before was, I know, good. It was confirmed a few hours following, and, as you know, I followed it." "Then listen," the Vicomte said. "L'affaire Poynton is in excellent hands. The young lady will come to no harm. You are here, I know, because you are her friend. You can help her if you will." "How?" Duncombe asked.
And le bon Cinders also! How he is droll, ce bon Cinders!" He snapped his fingers airily under the droll one's nose, and flashed his sudden smile into her face of distress. "Eh bien!" he said. "L'affaire est finie. Let us go." He stuck his weapon into the sand and left it there.
Louis loved the Franciscans, and in the Fioretti a beautiful story is told how the king, in the guise of a pilgrim, visiting Brother Giles at Perugia, knelt with the good friar in an embrace of fervent affection for a great space of time in silence. See L'affaire du Collier, by M. Funck Brentano. The establishment of the abbeys of St.
After the hurly-burly of l'affaire Dreyfus, he certainly needed some rest and privacy, but the question was whether retirement would be a necessity or a mere matter of convenience.
For by going into voluntary banishment, he kept not only his own but also Dreyfus's case 'open, and thus helped to foil the last desperate attempts that were being made to prevent the truth from being discovered. I should add that in the following pages I deal very slightly with l'Affaire Dreyfus, on which so many books have already been written.
As the latter fell at his feet, gazing into his face with the vacant stare of one surprised by death, Sanglier took a pinch of snuff, and said in a calm voice, "Voila l'affaire finie; mais," shrugging his shoulders, "ce n'est qu'un scelerat de moins." The act was too sudden to be prevented; and when Arrowhead, uttering a yell, bounded into the bushes, the white men were too confounded to follow.
As it is I have finished with l'affaire Poynton for the present. You see how very nearly l'affaire Poynton finished me." "It is not like you," Duncombe said thoughtfully, "to give anything up." "We come face to face sometimes with unique experiences, which destroy precedent," Spencer answered. "This is one of them." "And what," Duncombe asked, "do you advise me to do?"
M. Clemenceau was then at the height of his power as the maker and unmaker of French Ministries. It was he more than any other single man who had checkmated the Royalist reaction of 1877 and driven MacMahon from power; and in the year after we first met him he was to bring Jules Ferry to grief over L'affaire de Tongkin.
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