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Les demoiselles anglaises! Ce sont des fagotages inouïs pour la plus part, with their movements of the wooden horse and their skins of the goddess! As for le fiancé, il était assez retenu, il avait pourtant l'air maussade, mais il se consolait avec du champagne il fera un très brave mari." The next day Augustus went to London by the early train.

Here the amiable old lady checked herself, and said with kind reassurance to the unambitious Bessie, "But, ma chèrie, you have chosen well for your happiness. Your Harry is excellent; you have both such gayety of heart, like us not like the English, who are si maussade often." Bessie would not allow that the English are maussade, but madame refused to believe herself mistaken. Mr. and Mrs.

I felt as if the journey had always been going on, and only wished it were endless, for when it was over I should feel my desolation, and have no more to do for my Philippe. But I began to respond to my poor boy's caresses and playfulness a little more; I was not so short and maussade with my women or with my good brother, and I tried to pray at mass.

'Madame ah! je me jetterais au leu pour madame une femme si charmante, si adorable! Mais un homme comme monsieur maussade, boudeur, impassible! Ah, non! de ma vie! J'en avais par-dessus la tete, de monsieur! Ah! vrai! Est-ce insupportable, tout de meme, qu'il existe des types comme ca? Je vous jure que 'Finissez ce chahut, Celestine! Trent broke in sharply.

Excuse me, my dear friend, if I cannot stay at present to answer your questions about divorce. I must be punctual. What sort of a negotiator can he make who is too late at a minister's dinner? Five minutes might change the face of Europe. Yours truly, Paris. My incomparable Olivia! your letters are absolutely divine. I am maussade, I vegetate.

And the hermit so séduisant with his air maussade! Hein." "Yes, the war is much too long One has given of one's time in the first year but now, really, fatigue has overcome one! and surely after the spring offensive peace must come soon and one must live!" They smoked continuously and devoured the chocolate cake, then they had liqueurs. They were so well dressed! and so lissome.

She set her teeth with an audible sound, and the color rose in her small, dark face. English departed from her. "Je ne le regrette pas du tout, du tout!" she cried with a flood of words. "Madame ah! je me jetterais au feu pour madame une femme si charmante, si adorable. Mais un homme comme, monsieur maussade, boudeur, impassible! Ah, non! de ma vie! J'en avais pardessus la tête, de monsieur!

After that he helped me with the books, and was so merry and kind I soon felt cheered up, and by lunchtime all were finished and in the boxes ready to be tied up and taken away. Véronique, too, had made great progress in the adjoining room, and was standing stiff and maussade by my dressing-table when I came in.