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Updated: June 19, 2025
'Good God! exclaimed Emily, blushing deeply, 'it is surely impossible my aunt could thus have represented me! 'Indeed, ma'am, I say nothing more than the truth, and not all of that. But I thought, myself, she might have found something better to discourse about, than the faults of her own niece, even if you had been in fault, ma'amselle; but I did not believe a word of what she said.
De Courtenay stumbled, and in the scramble to right themselves they lost more time than they could spare. Before they were up and started, a shrill voice came into the gorge, yelling its "Hi! Hi! Hi-a!" De Courtenay suddenly stopped. "'Tis useless!" he said breathlessly; "We'll never make it! Here, do you take my place, Ma'amselle!" He caught Maren's shoulder and pushed her forward.
But a circumstance soon occurred, which entirely withdrew Annette's attention from this subject, and awakened the surprise and curiosity so natural to her. Coming one day to Emily's apartment, with a countenance full of importance, 'What can all this mean, ma'amselle? said she. 'Would I was once safe in Languedoc again, they should never catch me going on my travels any more!
Suspense is the soul of narrative, and thus dealt Rough-and-Tender of Burgundy with his best suspenses. "Now, dame, take not on till ye hear the end; ma'amselle, let not your cheek blanch so; courage! it looks ugly; but you shall hear how we won through. Had he miscarried, and I at hand, would I be alive?"
Upon inquiry she learned that the old lady had fallen a victim to the effects of the rolling sea. "But she'll soon be around again," said the captain in his bluff, cheery way; "Ma'amselle Labesse has crossed with me many times, and though she usually succumbs for two or three days, she is a good sailor after that.
'Yes, ma'amselle, any of them would be hard enough for that matter; but they do say, that something has been seen in the dead of night, standing beside the great cannon, as if to guard it. 'Well! my good Annette, the people who tell such stories, are happy in having you for an auditor, for I perceive you believe them all. 'Dear ma'amselle!
Theresa looked at her, and then at the object, on which her eyes were settled, and went to remove it; but Emily waved her hand 'No, said she, 'let it remain. I am going to my chamber. 'Nay, ma'amselle, supper is ready. 'I cannot take it, replied Emily, 'I will go to my room, and try to sleep. Tomorrow I shall be better. 'This is poor doings! said Theresa. 'Dear lady! do take some food!
Then, ma'amselle, I went so far as to offer him a beautiful new sequin, that Ludovico gave me for a keep sake, and I would not have parted with it for all St. Marco's Place; but even that would not do! Now what can be the reason of this? But I know, you know, ma'am, who you are going to see. 'Pray did Barnardine tell you this? 'He! No, ma'amselle, that he did not.
"Ma'amselle does not object, a trapper or a cavalier, all are fish to Ma'amselle's net. Mon Dieu! If all were so attractive as Ma'amselle!" The little maid sighed in exaggerated dolour. Dupre flashed round on his moccasined heel and reached her in a stride. "Aha! It is you, by all the saints!" he said beneath his breath, as he took her none too gently by the shoulder. "I know your tricks."
'Yet how is it possible, Annette, I can pass to the terrace at that hour? said she, recollecting herself, 'the sentinels will stop me, and Signor Montoni will hear of the affair. 'O ma'amselle! that is well thought of, replied Annette. 'That is what Barnardine told me about.
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