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Don't you see the letter is addressed to Mr. Traynor?" The valet nodded. "Oui, madame. But as Monsieur is out I thought that possibly madame " Incensed more at the fellow's impudent air than by what he actually said, Helen lost her temper. Angrily, she exclaimed: "Don't think. People of your class are not hired to think; they are paid to do as they are told.
He communicates this to the Engineer; it is impossible she could have passed the Eclaireur since they started, therefore she must be some where behind at a subfactory, "N'est-ce pas?" "Oui, oui, certainement," says the Engineer. The Engineer is, by these considerations, also lulled, and feels he may do something else but scan the river a la sister Ann.
"Oui, Madame." "From what part of France did she come?" A bewildered pause. Finally, "I don't know . . . from Switzerland, I think," brought out this shining example of the Higher Education. In spite of Algerian "advantages" the poor girl could speak only a few words of her mother's tongue. She had kept the European features and complexion, but her soul was the soul of Islam.
"Also," said Jeanne, in the matter-of-fact French way, "Si tu veux, I will henceforward pay for my lodging and nourishment." "You are very good, my little Jeanne," said Aunt Morin. "That will be a great help, for, vois-tu, we are very poor." "Oui, ma tante. It is the war." "Ah, the war, the war; this awful war! One has nothing left." Jeanne smiled.
"I have been a student a TENERIS ANNIS," she added, and he stood stupefied. "That's Latin!" he gasped. "Oui, M'sieur. Wollen Sie noch eine Olive haben?" Laughter rippled in her throat. She held out another olive to him, her face aglow. Firelight danced in her hair, flooding its darker shadows with lights of red and gold. "I was sure of it," he exclaimed, convinced.
"I don't know what 'Sapristie' means, mamma; but the Baron asked Madame what she was doing here? and Madame said, 'And you, Chicot, you are no more a General at Franco. Have I not translated rightly, Madame?" "Oui, mon chou, mon ange. Yase, my angel, my cabbage, quite right. "Chicot is my name of baptism," says the Baron; "Baron Chicot de Punter is my name."
Pardieu, I believe you take them away in your pockets." "That must have been because you left me nothing else in them, Chevalier," answered Lord Dalgarno; but Monsieur le Chevalier, I pray you to know my countryman and friend, Lord Glenvarloch!" "Ah, ha! tres honore Je m'en souviens, oui. J'ai connu autrefois un Milor Kenfarloque en Ecosse.
"Don't talk, Gibault," interposed Big Waller, "you need all the wind in your little carcass, I guess, to enable ye to steam ahead." "Oui, mon dear ami, you is right I do ver' much require all mine steam mine spirits for to push such a heavy, useless hulk as you before me."
C'est joli, zat little chanson of ze little rose- tree! Ze music, c'est une inspiration de Cicely and ze words are not so melancolique as ze love-songs made ordinairement en Angleterre! Oui oui! c'est joli!" He turned his shrewd old face up to the sky, and blinked at the dim stars, there was a smile under his grizzled moustache.
"Oui, Monsieur; I have such a man." "Bon! let him be so provoked, and after his violence has been thoroughly trumpeted through the fort, make a declaration of the same formally to me. I will then direct you to try him by court martial. You are aware of how I desire him to be disposed of.
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