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"I wish I were of his age," said the venerable Colchicum, with a sigh, as he inclined his purple face towards a large goblet of claret. "C'te Jeunesse. Peuh! je m'en fiche" said Madame Brack, Coralie's mamma, taking a great pinch out of Lord Colchicum's delicate gold snuff-box. "Je m'aime que les hommes faits, moi. Comme milor.
"What did he suppose was the cause of death?" The superintendent smiled. "Now you have it! Possibly you can throw light on it, my dear Juve, for I could hardly make head or tail of his diagnostic. The professor claims that death is due to a phenomenon of inhibition. What does that mean exactly?" Juve shrugged his shoulders. "Inhibition!... Peuh!... It is a learned word very learned!"...
"I wish I were of his age," said the venerable Colchicum, with a sigh, as he inclined his purple face toward a large goblet of claret. "C'te Jeunesse. Peuh! je m'en fiche," said Madame Brack, Coralie's mamma, taking a great pinch out of Lord Colchicum's delicate gold snuff-box. "Je n'aime que les hommes faits, moi.
Thus Vagualame had two strings to his bow, serving at one and the same time the Second Bureau and, most probably, its bitterest adversaries. "Vagualame, you really are a fool," went on de Loubersac. "What I refer to is the V. affair: how does it stand what has been done?" The old man began to laugh. "Peuh! Nothing at all! Another rigmarole in which women are mixed up!
How did he get all that relief that brilliance? No sunshine no local colour and the thing glows like a Rembrandt! The boy's mad blue eyes took a curious light, as though some inner enthusiasm had stirred. 'Peuh! we all know you, Alphonse. Say what you like, you want something else in a picture than painting. That'll damn you, and make your fortune some day, I warn you.
But for a woman to kill the man she loves, without bitterness, without hatred, simply because another woman loves him, is nothing but madness.... Can you understand it, Christophe?" "Peuh!" said Christophe. "I'm quite used to being unable to understand things. Love is madness." Anna, who had said nothing, and seemed not to be listening, said in her calm voice: "There is nothing irrational in it.
"A very good, kind, holy man," said Susanna. "And as my cousin is a faithful Catholic, I think on all accounts Father Angelo will serve my purpose best." "Peuh a Jesuit," said the Commendatore, elevating his nose. "He is n't a Jesuit he is a Capuchin," said Susanna. "They are all Jesuits," said the Commendatore, with a sweeping gesture.
Chamber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 " Candle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 " Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 " Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 " Total . . . . . . 23 francs. Service was written servisse. "Twenty-three francs!" cried the woman, with an enthusiasm which was mingled with some hesitation. Like all great artists, Thenardier was dissatisfied. "Peuh!" he exclaimed.
The talk began with an abrupt question from de Loubersac: "And the V. affair?" "The V. affair?... Peuh!" "What the deuce does he refer to?" Juve was asking himself. Unsuspecting, de Loubersac came to his aid. "Our corporal must have returned to Verdun to-day?" "Ah!" thought Juve, "our corporal is Vinson!"
He turned the handle to the left; then to the right. It yielded and unscrewed. The knife was hollow, and served as a hiding-place for a sheet of paper. "Peuh!" he said, "that is not very clever for a man like Arsene. But we mustn't lose any time. You, Dieuzy, go and search the restaurant." Then he read the note: "I trust to you, H-P will follow at a distance every day. I will go ahead.
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