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One afternoon he overtook her and rode by her side for a short distance when, finding her in unusually good spirits and temper, he again renewed his declaration of love and offer of marriage. Cap turned around in her saddle and looked at him with astonishment for a full minute before she exclaimed: "Why, Mr. Le Noir, I gave you an answer more than a week ago.
Oysters usurped the place of the customary hors d'oeuvres at breakfast, and the meal ended with café noir and cognac handed round by the deferential Iorson as being "offered by the proprietor," who, entering during the progress of the déjeûner, paid his personal respects to his clientèle. The afternoon brought us a charming discovery.
"God said, Let there be light, and there was light!" we should like to know where lies the melancholy of that sublime sentence. "Truth," says Plato, "is the body of God, and light is his shadow." In the name of common-sense, in what possible corner in the vicinity of that lofty image lurks the jaundiced face of this eternal bete noir of Mr. Moore's?
"There is something in that," mused Le Noir. "There is all in that!" "You have a good brain, Donald." "What did I tell you? I ought to have been in the cabinet and mean to be, too! But, colonel, as I mean to conclude my part of the engagement, I should like, for fear of accidents, that you conclude yours and settle with me before you go." "What do you mean?"
Il n'y avait rien au monde d'aussi noir que tes cheveux. Dans le monde tout entier il n'y avait rien d'aussi rouge que ta bouche. Ta voix etait un encensoir qui repandait d'etranges parfums, et quand je te regardais j'entendais une musique etrange! Ah! pourquoi ne m'as-tu pas regardee, Iokanaan? Derriere tes mains et tes blasphemes tu as cache ton visage.
Then, turning to Colonel Le Noir, he said: "But suppose, sir, that such was the estimation in which Doctor Day held the moral and intellectual worth of his young protégé that he actually gave him his daughter?" "I cannot suppose an impossibility, Doctor Williams," replied Colonel Le Noir, haughtily.
These became the hawks of the gambling table; their quick and wild-glancing eyes were constantly looking out for suitable game during the day, and leaving it where it might be bagged at night. Both at the rouge et noir table and roulette the same sort of company might be met with.
Still, he looks so ill and unhappy that I can't help pitying him," said Cap, looking compassionately at his white cheeks and languishing eyes, and little knowing that the illness was the effect of dissipation and that the melancholy was assumed for the occasion. A few days after this Cap again met Craven Le Noir, who again, with a deep bow and sad smile, passed her.
It is noticeable that European Continental fashions prevail generally in this city, French cooking, lunch at noon, and dinner at the end of the day, with cafe noir after meals, and to a great extent the European Sunday, to all which emigrants from the United States and Great Britain seem to adapt themselves.
Nevertheless, when the sense of confinement grew intolerable I sometimes eluded her vigilance and wandered about the house at night." "Thence, no doubt," said Traverse, "giving rise to the report that the house was haunted." Mrs. Le Noir smiled, saying: "I believe the Le Noirs secretly encouraged that report. I'll tell you why.
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