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But that condition has really existed since the war broke out, as no one is even allowed to engage a workman whose papers have not been visé at the mairie. I have had to have a wood fire today it is alarming, with winter ahead, and so little fuel, to have to begin heating up at the end of September three weeks or a month earlier than usual. November 25, 1916
Maurice hastily slipped on his trousers preparatory to going down to the street, but just then Combette appeared at the door with a bed-candle in his hand, gesticulating wildly. "I saw you from the square as I was coming home from the Mairie, and I came up to tell you the news.
The mayor, the mairie, all the firemen, municipal officers yes, even the soldiers walked. And as for the singing dame, all the young men were choristers then we were trained for months. When we walked and sang in the open streets the singing filled all the town. It was like a great thunder." "And the change why has it come?" persisted Charm.
This and one thing more, the Mairie, the town hall, as usual the one pretentious edifice of the French hamlet, and before the stairway of this we stopped and got out. We were at headquarters.
His eyes were fixed on the cousins; he was very pale, and the twitchings or contortions, which must have been involuntary whenever he was agitated, convulsed his whole body. "He made a long pause. 'I will save mademoiselle and monsieur, if she will go straight from prison to the mairie, and be my wife. "'Your wife! Jacques could not help exclaiming, 'That she will never be never!
The weather on this 20th of October was that of a perfect day in July. St. Martin du Var has its Mairie, handsome communal schools, and large public walks or recreation ground, a parallelogram planted with trees. The place has a neglected, Italian aspect; at the same time an aspect of ease and contentment.
The road studiously avoided the scattered houses, and the Mairie seemed especially difficult to find. When at length it was found, the maire, like the queen in the poets, was in the kitchen; and he sat affably on the end of a bench and read the letter of introduction aloud, asking me, at the conclusion, how was our friend Dugravel, a man amazing in many ways.
With the Mayor at their head, they then went to the Mairie of the 20th Arrondissement, and pillaged it of all the rations and bread and wine which they found stored up there. Then they separated, having passed a resolution to go at twelve o'clock to the Hôtel de Ville, to assist their "brothers" in turning out the Government. I got myself to the Place of the Hôtel de Ville at about two o'clock.
There were no large houses, the so-called château on the Bucquoy road being a very moderate mansion, and, apart from it, the rectory, mairie, the mill by the pond used as Brigade Headquarters, and the pleasant villa called Poste Cambronne, alone stood out in modest prominence. There were very few inns, the largest of which bore the touching and appropriate sign, 'A la Renaissance.
You could come with me to a certain Mairie I know, to-morrow, and we could marry without anybody having a word to say to it; and then, Hester, I'd carry you to Italy! I know a villa on the Riviera the Italian Riviera in a little bay all orange and lemon and blue sea.
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