United States or Burkina Faso ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Phoebus, who had seen nothing in the line of beauty, since he left the village maids of Queue-en-Brie, was intoxicated with Fleur-de-Lys, which imparted to our officer so eager and gallant an air, that his peace was immediately made. Madame de Gondelaurier herself, still maternally seated in her big arm-chair, had not the heart to scold him.
He had simply rejoined his company in garrison at Queue-en-Brie, in the Isle-de-France, a few stages from Paris. After all, it did not please him in the least to appear in this suit. He had a vague feeling that he should play a ridiculous figure in it. On the whole, he did not know what to think of the whole affair.
"At Queue-en-Brie." Phoebus was delighted with the first question, which helped him to avoid the second. "But that is quite close by, monsieur. Why did you not come to see me a single time?" Here Phoebus was rather seriously embarrassed. "Because the service and then, charming cousin, I have been ill." "Ill!" she repeated in alarm. "Yes, wounded!" "Wounded!" She poor child was completely upset.
Word Of The Day