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She showed to the ladies of the Court the severe verses which the Count had written; and his victims were so enraged that they carried their complaints to the King, who had already felt the weight of the author's blows in some verses beginning: "Que Deodatus est heureux De baiser ce bec amoureux, Qui, d'une oreille a l'autre va. Alleluia," etc.
I suppose you seldom meet in society now, the people you used to be familiar with twelve or fifteen years ago?" Mrs. O. "Oh, no-hardly ever." Mr. O'Riley kept his first rum-mill and protected his customers from the law in those days, and this turn of the conversation was rather uncomfortable to madame than otherwise. Hon. Mrs. Higgins "Is Francois' health good now, Mrs. Oreille?" Mrs.
That scheme was knocked galley-west and crooked, for even when MacRae's term expired he'd get a long period of duty at the Fort; he'd lost his rank, and as a private his coming and going would be according to barrack-rule instead of the freedom allowed a sergeant in charge of an outpost like Pend d' Oreille I knew that much of the Mounted Police style of doing business.
I'm somewhat puzzled to know why they didn't stand pat and make a clean job of us both. Blast them, anyway!" "Same here, and more of it," I fervently exclaimed. "Come on, let's get out of here," Mac abruptly proposed. "We'll have to make Pend d' Oreille and send word to Walsh. It'll take the whole force to catch them now." My gun lay where it had fallen when Hicks whacked me over the head.
On hearing this advice the little woman calmed down immediately, and then, after a moment's reflection, she said to her husband: "To-morrow, before going to your office, you will go to the Maternelle Assurance Company, show them the state your umbrella is in, and make them pay for the damage." M. Oreille fairly jumped, he was so startled at the proposal. "I would not do it for my life!
Our talk ranged from the Panhandle to the Canada line, while our horses jogged steadily southward. Dark came down on the four of us as we topped Manyberries Ridge, and seven or eight miles of rolling prairie still lay between us and Pend d' Oreille. If Mac had been alone he would have made the post by sundown, for the Mounted Police rode picked horses, the best money could buy.
On hearing this advice the little woman calmed down immediately, and then, after a moment's reflection, she said to her husband: "To-morrow, before going to your office, you will go to the Maternelle Assurance Company, show them the state your umbrella is in, and make them pay for the damage." M. Oreille fairly jumped, he was so startled at the proposal. "I would not do it for my life!
Laura's respect for these, women had augmented during this conversation, naturally enough; affection and devotion are qualities that are able to adorn and render beautiful a character that is otherwise unattractive, and even repulsive. Mrs. Gashly "I do believe I would a died if I had been in your place, Mrs. Oreille.
It took us all of the next day to make the trip to Stony Crossing and back by way of the place where Rutter was buried. Goodell had no fancy, he said, for a night camp on the prairie when it could be avoided. He planned to make an early start from Pend d' Oreille, and thus reach Walsh by riding late the next night. So, well toward evening, we swung back to the river post.
"I've been intending to call sooner, Miss Hawkins," said the Hon. Mrs. Oreille, "but the weather's been so horrid. How do you like Washington?" Laura liked it very well indeed. Mrs. Gashly "Is it your first visit?" Yea, it was her first. All "Indeed?" Mrs. Oreille "I'm afraid you'll despise the weather, Miss Hawkins. It's perfectly awful. It always is. I tell Mr.
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