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The young lady opened upon him in vain the battery of her attractions; in vain his mother urged her cause. Clement remained cold, insensible, inflexible. Mrs. Searle had a character which appears to have gone out of fashion in my family nowadays; she was a great manager, a maitresse-femme.
He appeared in the tightly-buttoned frock-coat of civil life, with a minute disc of some civic decoration in his button hole, and an incredibly tall chimney-pot hat. He came to render his respectueux hommages to the maîtresse-femme who had conducted her business within the four corners of the law, "sans avoir maille
And, without going outside of your own apartment, you had everything at hand for the refreshments, for the supper! 'There, I said to myself, as I watched you, 'is a true "maitresse-femme" a masterly woman!" Brigitte's nostrils dilated; she breathed in the words of the young lawyer. He gave her a side-long glance to enjoy his triumph; he had touched the right chord in her breast.
"That's a true friend!" said Helene beaming, and again touching Bilibin's sleeve. "But I love them, you know, and don't want to distress either of them. I would give my life for the happiness of them both." Bilibin shrugged his shoulders, as much as to say that not even he could help in that difficulty. "Une maitresse-femme! * That's what is called putting things squarely.
Pierre, the Parisienne cette maitresse-femme, my cousin Beck herself." "It is not right, Monsieur." "Comment? it is not right? By whose creed? Does some dogma of Calvin or Luther condemn it? What is that to me? I am no Protestant. I retain his lessons; and to what discoveries, grand Dieu! have they not aided me!" "Discoveries made by stealth seem to me dishonourable discoveries." "Puritaine!
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