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I wonder if the walls at Hurricane Hall will be strong enough to stand it! Wool will go mad! I doubt if he will ever do a bit more good in this world!" "But above all, I wonder what the Le Noirs, father and son, will say when they find that the heiress is flown and a 'beggar, as uncle flatters me by calling me, will be here in her place! Whe-ew-ew-ew! There will be a tornado!
I dined here and alone and was in hopes that a letter from you would have come or I should have dined out for my spirits at present are not good, nor can I contrive that they should be better, and yet je ne donnerai pas la mort though nothing in the world has happened, but j'ai les dragons noirs et fort noirs; l'avenir me donne des horreurs, but brisons la pour la present: I have bought to-day at Lord Holland's sale of books, "Dart's Antiquities of Westminster Abbey," a very complete copy on large paper.
And then, indeed, she could have said with reason 'I sure have made a damn fool of myself. To throw away the chances of costly furs and sparkling gems; to see les papillons noirs fluttering round her father's head in increasing numbers and not to find the biggest thing in Life after such a sacrifice yes, that would be too cruel. So, on balance, perhaps she had chosen wisely. . . ."
The atmosphere was thick with the smoke from cigars and cigarettes, and through the veneering amenities of much courtesy the gentlemen of Europe's Cabinets Noirs wrangled with insistence. Finally Monsieur Jusseret took the floor, and the others dropped respectfully into an attitude of listening. "It is hardly necessary," he began, "to discuss what has been done in Galavia.
While Cap was delivering this long oration, the two Le Noirs had made several essays to interrupt and contradict her, but were effectually prevented by the people, whose sympathies were all with the speaker. Now, at Herbert Greyson's command, they released the culprits, who, threatening loudly took their departure.
"When the Le Noirs came home, the first night of their arrival they entered my room, seized me in my bed and dragged me shrieking from it!" "Good heaven! What punishment is sufficient for such wretches!" exclaimed Traverse, starting up and pacing the narrow limits of the cell. "Listen! They soon stopped both my shrieks and my breath at once.
Well, Doctor Johnson believed in ghosts," laughed Traverse. "It remained for me to retreat as fast as possible to my room to avoid the Le Noirs, who were hurrying with headlong speed to the guest-chamber. They knew of course, that I was the ghost, although they affected to treat their visitor's story as a dream.
With press tickets, which he got very cheap, he often looked in at the theatres to acquaint himself with the faces and figures of the constant frequenters. He drew capital pencil sketches of the leading critics in his note-book. The gentleman next him that night at "Manteaux Noirs" would not have laughed so heartily if he had known why Andrew listened for his address to the cabman.
Aux pauvres. Quand l'or s'enfle dans ton sac, Dieu dans ton coeur decroit; Apprends qu'on est sans pain et sache qu'on a froid. Les jeunes filles vont rodant le soir dans l'ombre, Tes rochets, tes chasubles, aux topazes sans nombre, Ta robe en l'Orient dore s'epanouit, Sont de spectres qui sont noirs et vivant la nuit.
The agrarian battle is hard to fight. But 'les amis des noirs' in our midst have the vantage ground, particularly when rejected overseers come in as spies. C'est un peu dégoutant, mon cher ami; but I can stand the racket." MS. among the Hammond papers in the Library of Congress.
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