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Frustrated while "taking a leak" it was there that the brassier hanging on the wall had seemed like an unpatented snow boomerang there to show his misogyny. "Comrade Sangfroid?" yelled the man into the tree. "What do you want?" The boy put his hands around his mouth like a megaphone to facilitate the sound. "The queen of Antarctica, Comrade," he said. "Her gifts."
Duval, the préfet, fled to a neighbouring village, taking the public funds with him, while General Loverdo with a mere handful of loyal troops has retreated on Sisteron." Though M. le Comte de Cambray had listened to the préfet's narrative with all his habitual grandeur of mien, it soon became obvious that some of his aristocratic sangfroid had already abandoned him.
Galpin is the gentleman who saved your life yesterday, sir, said Simon with admirable sangfroid. 'He has called for a hundred pounds. 'Show him in here immediately, said Hugo. Mr. Galpin appeared in the dressing-room, looking more than ever like an extremely successful commercial traveller. Hugo could not think of any introductory remark worthy of the occasion.
If it hadn't been for the obscurity of her eyes behind her glasses it would have seemed that he was penetrating her eyes with intimate familiarity. "Mrs. Sangfroid?" "Yes, something like that," she said. "That's not right?" "Miss, if you don't mind; and even though I am a disciple of Freud, as much as I can be a disciple of anything, the pronounciation is "fraw" and not "Freud." "Sorry."
There was, however, that less realistic hope that they would have customers who might like the "sui generis" of a Gabriele Sangfroid enough to ferret out the libertine creator from obscurity with this needed substance of money. For their purchases such members of the apparatchik would find a link back to originality and freedom that would assuage their banal and stressful existences.
He comes to port every fortnight, or so; he wears dry goods and jewelry of the latest mode; and he marries a wife, or divorces a wife, with the same conventional sangfroid of any mercantile "drummer" who travels by railroad.
They saw his lips part and something that was almost a snarl transform and disfigure his mouth. "Fight for England?" he exclaimed bitterly. "I would sooner cut off my right hand!" His words left them at first speechless. He, too, after his little outburst seemed shaken, lacking in his usual sangfroid. It was Katharine who first recovered herself. "But you are English?" she protested wonderingly.
Though the pincers and the anvil were horribly torturing him at that moment, Arthur could not but admire his younger brother's astounding sangfroid. And he set off. "Here!" Simeon called him peremptorily. "Take this in case you don't come back." And he handed him the small bright object. "But I must come back. I can't possibly go without the trunk. All my things are in it." "I know that, man.
We limited our losses at poker to so much an evening, and what we won from the merchant class we invariably lost among the volunteer guards and cowmen, taking our luck with a sangfroid which proved us dead-game sports, and made us hosts of friends.
De Menou, by turns a nobleman and a sans-culotte, a Christian and a Mussulman, is wicked and profligate, not from the impulse of the moment or of any sudden gust of passion, but coldly and deliberately. He calculates with sangfroid the profit and the risk of every infamous action he proposes to commit, and determines accordingly.
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