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Aberton, with three or four other men; with that glaring good-breeding, so peculiar to the English, he instantly directed their eyes towards me in one mingled and concentrated stare. "N'importe," thought I, "they must be devilish clever fellows if they can find a single fault either in my horse or myself."
"N'importe, madame; remember 'that men have died and worms have eaten them, but not for love." "You know better, Vaura." On entering the hotel her maid met her with a message from Lady Esmondet bidding her dress at once for Mr. Bertram's dinner.
To be sure of this pleasure, he sent a special courier all the way to Folkestone, charged with a letter which he was himself to put into the hands of Mr. Webb, before the steamer left the dock. "But how am I to know the gentleman?" asked the courier; "I never saw him in my life." "N'importe," was the reply.
Poor mother! she wrote drearily enough of the hardships we would be obliged to undergo in the dismantled house, and of the new experience that lay before us; but n'importe! I am ready to follow her to Yankeeland, or any other place she chooses to go. It is selfish for me to be so happy here while she leads such a distasteful life in Clinton.
While the salad was being served one of the staff-officers was called to the telephone. When he returned the general raised inquiring eyebrows. "N'importe, mon général," he answered. "Colonel telephoned that the Boches attacked in force south of " and he named a certain sector, "but that we have driven them back with heavy losses."
The Duc de Berteuil is or rather was the greatest parti in France. He isn't any more, because they've married him to a rich girl from South America or one of those places brown as a berry with a bust " She rounded her arms to give an idea of the bust. "Mais, n'importe. My niece refused him.
It faut dire qu'il etait toujours pret a s'exposer, qu'on ne pouvait mentionner la moindre chose sans que ce gaillard offrit de parier la-dessus n'importe quoi et de prendre le cote que l'on voudrait, comme je vous le disais tout a l'heure.
N'importe, said I, the thing is over; it was rather good fun, too, upon the whole saving the "chute des casseroles;" and as to the lady, she must have seen it was a joke as well as myself. At least, so I am decided it shall be; and as there was no witness to our conversation, the thing is easily got out of.
I have ill expressed the above reflection; n'importe so much the better shall I explain my feelings at the time I speak of for I was then too eager and engrossed to attend to the niceties of words. On my arrival at Mivart's, I scarcely allowed myself time to change my dress before I set out to Lord Dawton. He shall afford me an explanation, I thought, or a recompence, or a revenge.
"He is unpolite, my sister," cried Marguerite, laughing. "But that is only because he is sore. The wounded bird has moulted a feather in his empty nest." "All the same, he is flown," answered Mdme. de Maufant, gravely. "N'importe," answered the damsel. "Leave him to me. I can whistle him back when I want him if I ever do."
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