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We should always consider the religious prejudices of others. Of course, as Catholics we must be glad to hear of anyone joining the true Church, but we should remember that Milord is going to lose his daughter. 'I assure you, my dear Mrs. Barton, I have no prejudices.
"We shall be thirteen at table!" exclaimed Matifat, paling visibly. "No, fourteen," said a voice in the doorway, and Florentine appeared. "I have come to look after 'milord Cardot," she added, speaking with a burlesque English accent. "And besides," said Lousteau, "Claude Vignon came with Blondet." "I brought him here to drink," returned Blondet, taking up an inkstand.
She did not fail to say in or out of season, 'Il n'y a personne comme notre cher Marquis, and as the turbot and fruit, that had arrived by the afternoon train from Dublin, were discussed, Milord did not cease to make the most appropriate remarks.
Two Frenchmen whispered to one another about him. "The milord Matheson, see you! The very rich milord Matheson." "Ah, if I were only a rich man too!" "What would you do?" "I should spend. How I should spend!" He licked his lips at the thought of the pleasures of body that money could buy him. "I should save," said the other. "I should make myself the richest man in the world.
Milord Rosbif must have been having some famous old wine over in the Faubourg St. Germain, is it not so?" he asked himself. But it was the more exalted intoxication of the soul that sent Paul up the steps with the elastic stride of youth. Who was she? Paul did not know, even now. Mademoiselle Vseslavitch had said nothing of her family or her home.
With a despairing cry the cry of the brave man who is beaten he fell upon the wooden pegs behind him, and they all rolled upon the ground together. He was cruel, this English milord, and he laughed so that he could not come to the aid of his servant.
She did not leave the verandah, however, without paying a pretty compliment to Milord, one that set him thinking how miserable his life would have been with his three disagreeable daughters if he had not fallen in with this enchantment. He remembered that it had lasted for nearly twenty years, and it was as potent as ever. In what did it consist, he asked himself.
"While I was drinking she said to me: "'Do you see that ring he has on his finger? If you like I'll give it to you. "And I answered: "'I would give one of my fingers to have your milord out on the mountains, and each of us with a maquila in his fist. "'Maquila, what does that mean? asked the Englishman. "'Maquila, said Carmen, still laughing, 'means an orange.
"You have been very fortunate to-night, milord," said one of the Frenchmen, with an envious tone of congratulation. "But, indeed," said another, who, having been several times his host's partner, had won largely, "you are the finest player, milord, I ever encountered." "Always excepting Monsieur Deschapelles and ," replied Lilburne, indifferently.
"It cost /milord/ a vast sum to make these alterations," said Madame de Ventadour, glancing archly at Maltravers. "Ah, yes," said the old lord; and his face, lately elated, became overcast "nearly three hundred thousand pounds: but what then? 'Les souvenirs, madame, sont sans prix/!" "Have you visited Paris since the restoration, Lord Doningdale," asked Maltravers.
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