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Updated: June 6, 2025
'That's all right, thought Soames, watching her lips, 'only she's pretty cynical. His knowledge of French was not yet such as to make him grieve that she had not said 'tu. He slipped his arm round her, and murmured with an effort: "Et vous etes ma belle femme." Annette went off into a little fit of laughter. "Oh, non!" she said. "Oh, non! ne parlez pas Francais, Soames.
It was very dark, and I went on board unobserved, two hours before the time of departure. Going down into the saloon cabin, I saw the purser sitting near the entrance, to whom I said: 'Parlez vous Francais? He shook his head. I then asked in jargon for 'une billet a Glasgow. Surmising what I wished, he gave me a ticket, putting on it the number of my berth.
As you step out of the hotel elevator you hear at the end of the hall a chorus shouting, "Mademoiselle from Armentieres parlez vous!" Those are your ushers. Opening the door of the room you step forward and announce, "Fellows, we have got to go to a tea right away. Come on let's go." At this, ten young men in cutaways will stand up and shout, "Yeaaa the best man give the best man a drink!"
I waited here alone for half an hour and then in came Zola with both hands hospitably outstretched. "Vous parlez Français?" he began, "Bien!" and with that he thrust me to a sofa and talked as I never heard man talk before. "We know all," he said, by way of exordium, "all, all, all! and here is the history of this lamentable case."
Even in the beginning of the week, they had almost evident signs of the victory, by the news which came of the king of Bintan; who having sent on all sides to be informed, whether the Portuguese had been defeated, being advertised from the river of Parlez of what had passed, forsook Muar, and retired with expedition, bewailing the misfortune of his allies, and ashamed of his ill-timed enterprize.
We had other dangers too, such as this: twice the guides said to me, "Ne parlez pas ici, Monsieur, et allez vite," the fear being of an ice avalanche falling on us, and we heard the rocks and ice which are detached by the wet falling all about.
To return to the Christian navy: Before they could get to Tenasserim, their want of fresh water forced them to seek it nearer hand, at Queda, in the river of Parlez; where being entered, they perceived by night a fisher-boat, going by their ships.
She replied: "Si c'est mon mari de qui vous parlez, cela m'est tout a fait egal; si c'est le Duc d'Aosta, je serai ravie de le voir." She came to the reception, but her husband was already gone. The Due d'Aosta was still there, and she walked straight up to him and kissed him on both cheeks, not an easy thing to do, for the duke was not at all the type of the gay lady's man very much the reverse.
Also whenever we wanted to speak in Russian, she would say, "Parlez, donc, francais," as though on purpose to annoy us, while, if there was any particularly nice dish at luncheon which we wished to enjoy in peace, she would keep on ejaculating, "Mangez, donc, avec du pain!" or, "Comment est-ce que vous tenez votre fourchette?" "What has SHE got to do with us?" I used to think to myself.
Fate that eventful night was on the side of the bold Englishman. The French were expecting a convoy of provisions, and the sentinel called out, "Passe!" Another sentry, more suspicious, ran down to the water's edge, and asked, "Pourquoi est-ce que vous ne parlez plus haut?" The captain replied with wonderful coolness, "Tais-toi, nous serons entendus!" an answer which satisfied the guard.
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