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She loved the French world and the French sights and sounds these tall, dingy houses of the banlieue, the dregs of a great architecture; the advertisements; the look of the streets. The train slackened into the Nord Station. The blue-frocked porters crowded into the carriages. "C'est tout, madame? Vous n'avez pas de grands bagages?" "No, nothing. Find me a cab at once."
Pompous magnificence may have reminded Louis unpleasantly of his visit to Burgundy. Archives du Nord. See Du Fresne de Beaucourt, vi., 113. In the last the narrative is more elaborate. A.J.V. Le Roux. The era of good feeling between Louis XI. and his Burgundian kinsmen was of short duration, and no wonder.
Again the initiative in courtship is taken by the woman, who chooses from her suitors the one whom she herself prefers. Duveyrier, Toûareg du Nord, p. 337 et seq. Chavanne, Die Sahara, pp. 181, 209, 234. It is interesting to note that the Targui women know how to read and write in greater numbers than the men.
Her words, on the other hand, seemed to have absolutely no meaning to him. She changed her tone a little. "Listen to what I say, Petter Nord. I am not dead. I am not going to die. I have got well in order to come up here and save you." He still stood in the same dull terror. Again there came a change in her voice. "You have not caused my death," she said more tenderly, "you have given me life."
Austrian, Russian, English, and American gold was pouring into the city pouring in ceaselessly from the four corners of the world and by every great express disgorging at the Gare du Nord, the Gare de l'Est, and the Gare de Lyons.
"Monsieur Thibault," he said, "you talk well, but you talk too late. It is of a past age, your talk. A new time comes to the Cote Nord. We begin to civilize ourselves. To hold back against the light would be our shame. Tell me this, Marcel Thibault, what men are they that love darkness?" "TORRIEUX!" growled Thibault, "that is a little strong. You say my deeds are evil?"
He got his reward, however, in another way; for the Etoile du Nord turned out to be such a very fine vessel, quite new and wonderfully fast, that Mr White purchased her on his own account, rechristening her the North Star, and put Lovell in command. He was fairly successful in her, I afterwards heard, but not nearly to such an extent as he ought to have been with so fine a vessel under him.
'I don't sleep, he said hurriedly. 'It's the noise. The Nord station is never quiet. Well, mind you've got to bring that off. Keep the papers safe. Good-bye, for a long time'. 'I can come over when I want? she said half sullenly. 'Yes, he assented, 'but you won't want. He drew her by the hand with a solemn tremulous feeling, and kissed her on the cheek.
She saw, indeed, the enthusiastic admiration which Maria felt for her mother's genius, and she was gratified by the regard and esteem which Maria showed for her and her brother, and the sympathy she expressed in their affection for each other, and in their kindness to their little Rocca brother. MARIA to MISS HONORA EDGEWORTH. LYONS, HOTEL DU NORD, Oct. 22, 1820.
For it happened that after Petter Nord ran away from Halfvorson, he sought refuge in the graveyard. At first he ran towards the bridge over the river and turned his steps towards the big town. But on the bridge the unfortunate fugitive stopped. The kingly crown on his brow was quite gone. It had disappeared as if it had been spun of sunbeams.
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