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The person in the coupe, he accordingly judged, whether or no the same person as the heroine of the episode of the Bois de Boulogne, was not a source of unalloyed delight. Longmore had dark blue eyes of admirable clarity, settled truth-telling eyes which had in his childhood always made his harshest taskmasters smile at his notion of a subterfuge.
She wasn't planning to get the worth of her trouble back in some other way; for the present she was proposing to live with it peaceably, reputably and without scandal turning the key on it occasionally as you would on a companion liable to attacks of insanity. Longmore was a man of fine senses and of a speculative spirit, leading-strings that had never been slipped.
It is commanded by all the hills on the opposite side, and we know they have brought up also all their artillery there." In a few minutes Captain Longmore returned. "The enemy have thrown two pontoon bridges across, one above and one below the old railway bridge.
On the terrace Madame Clairin was entertaining a friend a little elderly gentleman with a white moustache and an order in his buttonhole. Madame de Mauves chose to pass round the house into the court; whereupon her sister-in-law, greeting Longmore with an authoritative nod, lifted her eye-glass and stared at them as they went by.
He stopped and stood talking for some moments to the landlady, while something pleasant played in his face. They were discussing the possibilities of dinner; the hostess enumerated some very savoury ones, and he nodded briskly, assenting to everything. It couldn't be, Longmore thought, that he found such ideal ease in the prospect of lamb-chops and spinach and a croute aux fruits.
They found many things to talk about, and to the pleasure of feeling the hours slip along like some silver stream Longmore was able to add the satisfaction of suspecting that he was a "resource" for Madame de Mauves.
Longmore the next day wandered off to the terrace to try and beguile the restlessness with which he waited for the evening; he wished to see Madame de Mauves for the last time at the hour of long shadows and pale reflected amber lights, as he had almost always seen her.
"Ah don't say that!" Mrs. Draper knowingly protested. "Just a little folly's often very graceful." Longmore rose to go she somehow annoyed him. "Don't talk of grace," he said, "till you've measured her reason!" For two years after his return to America he heard nothing of Madame de Mauves.
Longmore gives an instance of complete transfixion by a lance of the right side of the chest and lung, the patient recovering. Ruddock mentions cases of penetrating wounds of both lungs with recovery. There is a most remarkable instance of recovery after major thoracic wounds recorded by Brokaw.
I returned yesterday from Paris by the only way by the train." Madame Clairin was infinitely struck. "I've never known a person at all to be so fond of Saint-Germain. They generally declare it's horribly dull." "That's not very polite to you," said Longmore, vexed at his lack of superior form and determined not to be abashed. "Ah what have I to do with it?" Madame Clairin brightly wailed.
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