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Updated: June 10, 2025
But in the business of summoning Carlat Mademoiselle de Vrillac's steward and major-domo he lost the contemptuous "Christaudins!" that hissed from a footboy's lips, and the "Southern dogs!" that died in the moustachios of a bully in the livery of the King's brother.
You see, although it is not the fashion in England to wear beards, my dear father thinks it right to do so, for he is fond, he says, of doing only those things that he can give a good reason for, and as he can see no reason whatever for shaving off his moustachios and beard, any more than the hair of his head and eyebrows, he lets them grow. You know what a Radical is, I suppose?"
These badges they wore around their necks, or as buttons to their hats. As a further distinction they shaved their beards close, excepting the moustachios, which were left long and pendent in the Turkish fashion, that custom, as it seemed, being an additional characteristic of Mendicants. Very soon after these events the nobles of the league dispersed from the capital to their various homes.
In the ante-chamber of "the iron man" stood an orderly with a big sealed dispatch in his hand, a tall grenadier-sort of warrior, with two stiffly twisted moustachios, the pointed ends of which projected like a couple of fixed bayonets. A deep scar furrowed each of his red cheeks from end to end, a living testimony to the fact that this warrior was no mere sucking soldier.
The men of war with their cartridge moustachios saluted us by firing their muskets, the wadding of which struck me and my palanquin, for which I did not thank them, as a bit of the wadding burnt my cheek. On reaching the Castle at Cape Coast I was so wearied that I was almost too lazy to undress.
A pretty saint, and a pretty dove, truly! She is round as a hogshead, with the voice of a town-crier; has gray moustachios like an old grenadier, and without her knowing it, I heard her say to her servant: 'Stir your stumps, my hearty! and yet she calls herself Sainte-Colombe!" "How hard on her you are, Dupont; a body don't choose one's name. And, if she has a beard, it is not the lady's fault."
I put on the dress, swaggered and bullied with many other young men of my acquaintance, who were all ready, as they swore, to eat their enemies alive, and who curled their moustachios to prove the truth of what they said.
'In the usual way, said Gyp: 'by finding a rhyme to him, and then putting him under foot. 'But suppose he won't be deposed? 'Ah, it will be our turn then, said Ruba gloomily. 'He will appoint a successor, and we shall be repeated backwards. At this all the Brethren curled their moustachios and sighed deeply.
Leaving a partner to attend to the sales at home, he went abroad for the selection of goods, and the further enhancement of his social reputation. He returned in two years with a fashionable figure, a most recherché style of dress, moustachios of the most approved cut, and whiskers of faultless curl a finished gentleman in his own conceit.
energy that his eyes and Gallic moustachios were fairly trembling. In spite of his corduroy suit and his bulging linen hand bag, he had the same grand and heroic aspect as the figures by Rude in the Arc de Triomphe. The "affinity" and the boy were trudging along the sidewalk so as to accompany him to the station.
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