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Phinuit was desolated to think he might be imposing on madame's good nature, but the accident was positive, the night truly inclement, madame la comtesse was already suffering from the cold, and if one might beg shelter for her and the gentlemen of the party while one telephoned or sent to Nant for another automobile....
"Monsieur d'Aubrac is in no immediate danger. Still, the services of a good surgeon, as soon as may be ..." "Will it be dangerous to wait till we get to Nant?" "How far is that, madame?" "Twelve miles." Duchemin looked aside at the decrepit conveyance with its unhappy horses, and summed up a conclusion in a shrug. "Millau is nearer, is it not, madame?"
Liane Delorme! Those syllables were like a spoken spell to break the power of dark enchantment which had hampered Lanyard's memory ever since first sight of this woman in the Café de l'Univers at Nant. A great light began to flood his understanding, but he was denied time to advantage himself immediately of its illumination: Liane Delorme was quick to parry and riposte.
And, naturally, his papers were unimpeachable. A freedom which, consistent with the native inconsistency of man, he exercised by electing to stop over in Nant for another day or two, at least; assuring himself that he found the town altogether charming, more so even than Meyrueis and sometimes believing this fiction for as much as twenty minutes at a stretch.
Tom O Nant is a nickname I've got, My name's Thomas Edwards, I wot." The Hospice The Two Rivers The Devil's Bridge Pleasant Recollections.
Involuntarily but unobtrusively, under cover of the little tubbed trees that hedged the terrasse apart from the square, Duchemin did likewise, and so discovered, or for the first time appreciated, the cause of the uncommonly early dusk that loured over Nant.
"You never had a prydydd like Huw Morris in South Wales," said he; "nor Twm o'r Nant either." "South Wales has produced good poets," said I. "No, it hasn't," said the old fellow; "it never produced one. If it had, you wouldn't have needed to come here to see the grave of a poet; you would have found one at home." As he said these words he got up, took his stick, and seemed about to depart.
He's a very decent chap, is Van Nant, Mr. Headland, although my daughter has never appeared to think so. But there's no arguing with a woman, any way." Cleek glanced at Narkom. It was a significant glance, and said as plainly as so many words: "What do you think of it? You said there was no motive, and, provided Carboys fell heir to something of which we know nothing as yet, here are two!
As we proceeded, however, large sheets began to roll up the mountain sides, and by the time we reached the summit were completely shrouded in vapour. The night, however, was not very dark, and we found our way tolerably well, though once in descending I had nearly tumbled into the nant or dingle, now on our left hand.
"Well, at the end of four years or so Van Nant came to the bottom of his purse hadn't a stiver left; and from dabbling in art for pleasure, had to come down to it as a means of earning a livelihood.
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