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Besides this, I have to-day a letter from a friend in Paris, who says that "everybody feels her charm," and that "the Emperor, when presenting her at the balcony on the wedding-day, looked radiant with happiness." My Parisian friend says that young Alexandre Dumas is amongst the people arrested for libel, a thorough mauvais sujet. Lamartine is quite ruined, and forced to sell his estates.
Thus in the eyes of both Church and State the coureur de bois was a mauvais sujet, and the offence of taking to the forest without a licence became punishable by death or the galleys. Though Frontenac was not the author of this severe measure, duty required him to enforce it. Perrot was a friend and defender of the coureurs de bois, whom he used as employees in the collection of peltries.
The women called him un horreur, and the men un bete. The old railed at his mauvais gout, and the young at his mauvais coeur, for the former always attribute whatever does not correspond with their sentiments, to a perversion of taste, and the latter whatever does not come up to their enthusiasm, to a depravity of heart.
Gaston whispered gloomily behind my chair: "Mon petit caporal" he called me that because of a fancied likeness to the young Napoleon "dites donc. Vous croyex quils vont passer par Amiens? Non, ce n'est pas possible, ca! Pour la deuxieme fois? Non. Je refuse a le croire. Mais c'est mauvais, c'est affreux, apres tant de sacrifice!"
"Adieu, mother," said Boniface, throwing his arms round her neck with the assurance of a spoiled child. "Have you nothing to say to Maître Joulu?" "Adieu, mauvais sujet," replied the poor woman, embracing her son, and yielding to that attraction which a mother cannot resist; "adieu, and be steady." "As an image, mother, on condition that you will give us a nice little dish of sweets for dinner."
I knew they were the evil geniuses of Dermot's life. Lord Malvoisin had been his first tempter as boys at their tutor's, and again in the Guards; and Ernest, or Nessy, Horsman was the mauvais sujet of the family, who never was heard of without some disgraceful story. And Dermot had led my boys among these. All that had brightened life so much to me had suddenly vanished.
I remember him well; a terrible mauvais sujet, but superbly handsome. There was a shocking story about the jewels of a foreign duchess, which obliged him to leave Paris."
"Well, then," we said, "to Mons." "Le chemin est éxecrable." "To Phillippe ville." "Encore plus mauvais."
'Look at it, man! Supposing anything happens supposing it blows a gale! But it's no good shivering here and staring at the view. I'm going below. There was a mauvais quart d'heure below, during which, I am ashamed to say, I forgot the quest. 'Which soup do you feel inclined for? said Davies, timidly, after a black silence of some minutes.
He had been drinking too, and, as the French say avait le vin mauvais so he answered coolly and slowly, letting the syllables fall one by one, like drops of hail, "I shall mention it just as often as it pleases me, and with just so much respect as is due to Mannering's cast-off wife and your " The foul word that was on his lips never left them, for Mohun's threat was literally fulfilled.
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