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They saw each other once a day: Madame Paul always paid her visit to the Comte de Florac: and Betsy, her maid, made the old gentleman laugh by her briskness and talk. She brought back to her mistress the most wonderful stories which the old man told her about his doings during the emigration before he married Madame la Comtesse when he gave lessons in dancing, parbleu!
I see that until you are presented, there will be doubts perpetually arising and tormenting us on the subject; and until it takes place I shall have no ease. Parbleu! Let us take the best means in our power of reducing these malcontents to silence." "Sire," replied the marechal, "make your will palpable, and you will see all the court submit." "Yes, but my daughters?"
Being on the spot and therefore much better placed than you to judge of the dangers of the situation, I can assure you that the principal person concerned does not appear to feel the least anxiety. Monsieur de l'Estorade quarrels with me for one thing only: he thinks my visits too few, and my reserve misanthropy. Parbleu!
"Tell me, Aylward," said Alleyne earnestly, with his hands outstretched to keep the pair asunder, "what is the cause of quarrel, that we may see whether honorable settlement may not be arrived at?" The bowman looked down at his feet and then up at the moons "Parbleu!" he cried, "the cause of quarrel? Why, mon petit, it was years ago in Limousin, and how can I bear in mind what was the cause of it?
"Hast any friend in the service whom I could advance for thy sake?» "Yes, parbleu!" said Pioche, scratching his forehead, with a sort of puzzle and confusion even the Emperor smiled at, "I have a friend. But mayhap those wouldn't like " "Ask me for nothing thou thinkest I could not, ought not to grant," said the Emperor, sternly. "What is't now?"
Yesterday evening on the Boulevards there were groups discussing "the traitors." Some said that General Schmitz had been arrested; others that he ought to be arrested. A patriot observed to me that all foreigners in Paris ought, as a precautionary measure, to be extirpated. "Parbleu," I replied, and you may depend upon it I rolled my eyes and shrugged my shoulders in true Gallic fashion.
But," he added, looking round, "the streets are no proper place for my communication; /parbleu/, there are those about who hear whispers through stone walls: suffer me to call upon you to-morrow." "To-morrow! it is a day of great business with me, but I can possibly spare you a few moments, if that will suffice; or, on the day after, your own pleasure may be the sole limit of our interview."
"Yes, parbleu!" said he, reddening, "yes, that you are." "Then here I do so," rejoined I, drawing my sword from its scabbard. "The career I can no longer follow honorably and independently, I shall follow no more." "Your corps, sir?" said the marshal. "The Eighth Hussars of the Guard." "Take a note of that, Gardanne.
"If you expect some one else, I am not the last," said the count. "I agree to that reasoning," said Mistigris. Georges and Oscar began to laugh impertinently. "The old fellow doesn't know much," whispered Georges to Oscar, who was delighted at this apparent union between himself and the object of his envy. "Parbleu!" cried Pierrotin, "I shouldn't be sorry for two more passengers."
Then he let his head sink upon his two hands, while d'Artagnan stood before him, stupefied. "That has cured me of beautiful, poetical, and loving women," said Athos, after a considerable pause, raising his head, and forgetting to continue the fiction of the count. "God grant you as much! Let us drink." "Then she is dead?" stammered d'Artagnan. "PARBLEU!" said Athos. "But hold out your glass.
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