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"Well, now," he said, blithely, "as you are a stranger, a man of high and irreproachable honor, sans peur et sans reproche and one, I know, who will not place me in an equivocal position here in my home by divulging my true position I don't mind telling you, in all confidence, the truth. I am not, my dear sir, an ass. What a humbug this whole greenback question is!
But I suppose one never attains one's desire without its being leavened with some bitterness. If there was one point I was anxious over in my youth, it was to keep up through life a name like the Chevalier Bayard how folk would smile to hear of a tradesman emulating Bayard 'sans peur et sans reproche! And so things might be ought to be. So perhaps they shall be yet, in spite of this calumny."
At the whiche the maner is, out of one of these Skulles, as out of a wassailing boule, to giue all those the wine that haue slaine an enemie. But he that hath done no such notable acte, tasteth not therof, but sitteth aparte in a corner with out honour: which is iudged among them a greate reproche.
The queen quickly stooped down and kissed him. "Yes, truly, my little Bayard, yon have done honor to your great exemplar, and you have really been a little chevalier sans peur et sans reproche. But, my child, true bravery does not glory in its great deeds, and does not desire others to admire them, but keeps silent and leaves it to others to talk about them!"
I am beginning to regard him as the one chevalier sans peur et sans reproche, and to fancy that you ought to go down on your knees before him, and kiss his highness's shoebuckle. In judging of men one's mind vacillates so quickly between the scorn which is due to a false man and the worship which is due to a true man."
"Zoe, shut her mouth!" said Platonov. "He just jumped up at once and ... app! ..." and Niura's torrent instantly broke off, stopped up by Zoe's palm. Everybody burst out laughing, only Boris Sobashnikov muttered under cover of the noise with a contemptuous look: "OH, CHEVALIER SANS PEUR ET SANS REPROCHE!"
Rattington's brother, John D. Bruce, of Bruce, Watkins & Co., at the latter's residence, 74 Fifth Avenue. Among Mr. Bruce's guests were Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Dandervelt, Mr. and Mrs. Elisha Scroog, Jr., Major-General Carrington Cox, Mr. and Mrs. Henderson Scovill, and Signor Caruso." "Old Bruce, eh?" laughed Holmes. "Sans peur et sans reproche. Well, that is interesting.
When he returned, after two or three months, he looked more the "chevalier sans peur et sans reproche" than ever; and neither he, nor the fair partner of his joys and sorrows, even committed such a breach of politeness as to inquire into each other's doings during the time of their separation.
Harold Smith, showing by the tremulousness of the whisper that she looked forward to the meeting with some amount of apprehension. "How do you do, Mr. Sowerby?" said Miss Dunstable, walking almost into the doorway to welcome him. "Better late than never." "I have only just got away from the House," said he, as he gave her his hand. "Oh, I know well that you are sans reproche among senators as Mr.
He would have enjoyed the risks, and turmoil, and competition; he would have enjoyed the fine, free field of endeavor, and he would have jousted with the best of us in our tournament of life, which has trained as many knights sans peur et sans reproche as any country in the world.
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