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Yes, I am Edgard. Let us have coffee and a cigar, Balderstone." "Plait-il, Monsieur le Vicomte?" says the French Caleb. "Thou comprehendest not English. Thou readest not Valtare Scott, thou!" cries the master. "I was recounting to Monsieur Newcome thy history and my misfortunes. Go seek coffee for us, nigaud."
It is to make a cabinet for the old Madame at the big house." "Oui, mon maitre," said the dull Hyacinthe. "Thy great hands shall shape and smooth the wood, nigaud, and I will render it beautiful," said Pierre, puffing out his chest. "Yes, Master," answered Hyacinthe humbly, "and when is it to be ready for Madame?" "Madame will want it perhaps next week, for that is Christmas.
"Give me the reins, malappris! tu m'ecrases le corps, manant!" yelled the frantic nobleman, writhing underneath the intrepid charioteer. "Tant pis pour toi, nigaud," was the reply. The lovely Amethyst of course had fainted; but she recovered as she was placed in her carriage, and rewarded her preserver with a celestial smile.
How many chemises have I, Frederic?" "Eh, parbleu, Monsieur le Vicomte sait bien que nous avons toujours vingt-quatre chemises," says Frederic, grumbling. Monsieur le Vicomte springs up shrieking from the dinner-table. "Twenty-four shirts," says he, "and I have been a week without a louis in my pocket! Belitre! Nigaud!"
He, the horse, the omnibus, and we, all waited for, what do you suppose? To besprinkle the walking Englishmen as they came within range with a shower of circulars announcing that at "midi, chez Nigaud, il y aura un dejeuner chaud." The driver turned to look in at the window and to nod as he turned he felt so certain of our sympathy; had he not made sure of them at last?
She called him bete! and grand bete! by turns, butor! ane! and grand butor! nigaud! and grand nigaud! pronounced him to be "Un homme qui ne dit rien d'ailleurs un homme qui n'a pas l'air comme il faut un homme, enfin, qui n'est pas presentable meme en fait de mari." Dora looked unutterable things; but this was not unusual with her.
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