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One of these functionaries approached them with eagerness and with a "Mesdames sont seules?" receiving in return from her ladyship the slightly snappish announcement "Non; nous sommes beaucoup!" He introduced them to a table larger than most of the others, and under his protection they took their places at it and began rather languidly and vaguely to consider the question of the repast.
"My father," wrote Garcia, "went through the transition time without ceasing to sing, and without having done himself the least harm. But both my sisters, Mesdames Malibran and Viardot, were obliged to wait a year. I continued to sing, and my voice was ruined!"
But Ned Hinkley thought of all his neighbors, not omitting the two rival widows, Mesdames Cooper and Thackeray. Something too, there was in the sport, which, on the present occasion, beguiled him rather longer than his wont.
They snatched up the last leaves of paper; the pens failed; M. de Luynes wrote to his wife a letter in pencil. There were no wafers; they were forced to send the letters unsealed; some soldiers offered to post them. M. Chambolle's son, who had accompanied his father thus far, undertook to take the letters addressed to Mesdames de Luynes, de Lasteyrie, and Duvergier de Hauranne.
We 'Messieurs et Mesdames, lords and ladies of the creation hide our heads in a kennel; our dirty rooms 'give' on to the odorous court-yard; we turn our backs upon the valley which the building almost overhangs; we can neither breathe pure air nor see the bright landscape.
Mesdames de Carnavalet and de Sauve, two of his fair friends, had warned him that, far from giving him the lieutenant-generalship, which had been so often promised him, it had been decided to confer this office on the king's brother, in order to get him back to court and seize his person as soon as he arrived.
Provided with a little thin stick, I would take the web and wrap it round the wounded finger. "And now, my lady spiders, you must begin your work again," and, active and minute, mesdames the spiders began their spinning once more. I was looked upon as a little authority, and was made umpire in questions that had to be decided.
"Messieurs, mesdames," said Poirot, with a flourish, "let me introduce you to the murderer, Mr. Alfred Inglethorp!" "Poirot, you old villain," I said, "I've half a mind to strangle you! What do you mean by deceiving me as you have done?" We were sitting in the library. Several hectic days lay behind us.
"Because, do you see," he turned to Laura and Georgiana, submitting to the vexatious necessity of seeming reasonable to these creatures, "she is a casket for one pearl. It is only one, but it is ONE, mon Dieu! and inscrutable heaven, mesdames, has made the holder of it mad. Her voice has but a sole skin; it is not like a body; it bleeds to death at a scratch.
'Mesdames, said I, 'we want rooms, if you please, to-night, and also dinner. 'Monsieur, replied the lady with the moustache, 'I am sorry, but but all our rooms are occupied. 'You are afraid of us, madame? 'Yes, monsieur, I am. This I thought very frank indeed; and I was turning over in my mind what I had better say next, when she continued: 'We never take travellers without baggage.
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