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And he grimly spread, close under my eyes, his ten fingers. "I black my boots," pursued he savagely. "I brush my paletot." "No, Monsieur, it is too plain; you never do that," was my parenthesis.
About three o'clock of the afternoon, the peace of the first classe safely established, as it seemed, under the serene sway of Madame Beck, who, in propria persona was giving one of her orderly and useful lessons this peace, I say, suffered a sudden fracture by the wild inburst of a paletot. Nobody at the moment was quieter than myself. What was the matter?
I was losing the early impulse to recoil from M. Paul. Habituated to the paletot and bonnet- grec, the neighbourhood of these garments seemed no longer uncomfortable or very formidable. Nor did my temerity, this evening at least, meet the punishment it perhaps merited; he was both indulgent and good-natured; not a cross glance shot from his eyes, not a hasty word left his lips.
Mordecai had no handsome Sabbath garment, but instead of the threadbare rusty black coat of the morning he wore one of light drab, which looked as if it had once been a handsome loose paletot now shrunk with washing; and this change of clothing gave a still stronger accentuation to his dark-haired, eager face which might have belonged to the prophet Ezekiel also probably not modish in the eyes of contemporaries.
'Bon jour, mon cher monsieur! We are friends, though not of the same opinion. Monsieur is a republican of the most distinguished; conspirator of profession, and at this time engaged in constructing an infernal machine to the address of His Majesty, Louis Philippe, King of the French." "Who is my friend with the scarlet beard and the white paletot?
Besides these, there was a young Monkey, exactly like my brother's boy, Jack; a Mouse, dressed in the last-fashioned paletôt; and a little thing that for a long time I could make nothing of, but I fancy they call her a Duck-billed Platypus.
He decorates himself in his light-coloured paletot, blue neck-tie, and last dickey drives to Regent Street to purchase cigars to an oyster-shop redolent of saw-dust and lobsters rigs a very light pair of kids drives to, and alarms by his fast appearance, a few of his friends, who forthwith write off long woolly letters to relations in the country.
We wanted to renew our acquaintance with them, and they were coming forward quite pleased to greet us. But the father pulled back one of the little men by his paletot, gave a grim scowl, and walked away. I can see the children now looking rather frightened away from us and up into the father's face, or the cruel uncle's which was he? I think he was the father. So this was the end of them.
"It's no matter, no matter," he repeated a second time in Russian. "You are a good girl. Here is some one coming to pay you a visit. Good-bye. You are a very good girl." And Lemm made his way with hasty steps to the gate, through which there was passing a gentleman who was a stranger to him, dressed in a grey paletot and a broad straw hat.
This person occupied my chair; his olive hand held my desk open, his nose was lost to view amongst my papers. His back was towards me, but there could not be a moment's question about identity. Already was the attire of ceremony discarded: the cherished and ink-stained paletot was resumed; the perverse bonnet-grec lay on the floor, as if just dropped from the hand, culpably busy.
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