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One was quite young, perhaps five-and-twenty, and it was to him that the brother who parleyed with the outer world at the gate introduced me, with the recommendation that he should do all in his power for me, adding, with an emphasis by which he gained my friendship for ever: 'Je reponds sur vous. The young man said that as soon as he had finished his own meal he would see to my supper.
Il attrapa un jour une grenouille et l'emporta chez lui, disant qu'il pretendait faire son education; vous me croirez si vous voulez, mais pendant trois mois il n'a rien fait que lui apprendre a sauter dans une cour retiree de sa maison. Et je vous reponds qu'il avait reussi.
This was before the publication of the 'Greville Memoirs, and not on account of it. To Aix in the end of May. Longman was with me. Home on June 4th. From M. Guizot Val Richer, ce 22 juillet. My Dear Sir, Je reponds a votre aimable lettre du 14 juillet, et je commence par supprimer mon ecriture.
Mais reponds, donc, canaille!" The dancer stamped furiously with her foot and advanced menacingly on Barbara. An undersized; yellow-faced man came quickly out of the small door leading from the bar and stood an instant, a helpless witness of the scene, as men are when women quarrel. Nur-el-Din rapped out an order to him in a tongue which was unknown to Barbara. It sounded something like Russian.
The people described him dressed "comme un perruquier" in a grey great-coat; he clattered into the house, bustled about, went to his room early, and appeared again at 9 the next morning, but "J'en reponds bien" that he was not sleeping all that time.
He blinked painfully for a moment or two, and then perceived that he lay within a circle of fierce, grey-coated soldiers, who were putting him a score of questions in a tongue which he felt sure it would take him a year to master. He endeavoured to say so. "Ar-r-rh!" exclaimed one of the soldiers, spitting contemptuously, "C'est un Anglais." "Espion!" "J'en reponds."
Il attrapa un jour une grenouille et l'emporta chez lui, disant qu'il pretendait faire son Education; vous me croirez si vous voulez, mais pendant trois mois il n'a rien fait que lui apprendre a sauter dans une cour retire de sa maison. Et je vous reponds qu'il avait reussi.
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