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Then at her cue, Laura, who was to play the role of the duchess, entered with the words: "I beg your pardon, but the door stood open. May I come in?" Monsieur Gerardy murmured: "Elle est vraiment superbe." Laura to the very life, to every little trick of carriage and manner was the high-born gentlewoman visiting the home of a dependent.
"C'est un plaisir superbe" was the description given by some voyageurs on exploring work, who had spent the afternoon chasing young birds about the rocks and stamping them to death. Deer were literally hacked to pieces by construction gangs on new lines last summer. Dynamiting a stream is quite a common trick wherever it is safe to play it.
But on this terrible plunge-home of the SUPERBE, the rest all made for the shore; and escaped into the rocky intricacies and the darkness. Four of Conflans's ships were already gone, struck, sunk, or otherwise extinct, when darkness fell, and veiled Conflans and his distresses. It was such a night as men never witnessed before.
Windmills seem great favourites with the Dutch. In the Diligence near Utrecht my neighbour roused me by a sudden exclamation, "Oh la vue superbe!" I looked, and beheld 14 of them in a Dyke! and yesterday, on asking the Laquais de place if we should see anything curious at Saardam besides the Czar's house, he replied, "Oh que, oui beaucoup de Moulins!"
The Revolutionaire, 110, wrecked Dec. 24, on the Mingan rock, near Brest; the Neuf Thermidor, 80. Scipion, 80, and Superbe, 74, foundered in a heavy gale on the 28th of January; and the Neptune, 74, wrecked in Audierne Bay.
Il y a plusieurs tableaux remarquables, entre autres une Venus de Leighton que je trouve superbe. La contribution de Landseer est importante, c'est un portrait de la Reine, a cheval, en deuil; cheval noir, trois chiens noirs, groom noir, ciel noir. "C'est agreable de rentrer le soir en pleine campagne; ca me fait du bien.
I will pay you anything you like! You sha'n't be dull somebody shall come and amuse you. Voyons monsieur! she called imperiously. David came up. She stood with one hand on the table leaning her light weight backward, looking at them with all her eyes the very embodiment of masterful caprice. 'Both of them! she said under her breath, 'superbe! Monsieur, look here. You and mademoiselle are tired.
"Oh, they don't come for economy," I answered. "They must be rich." "They don't come for my beaux yeux for mine," said M. Pigeonneau, sadly. "Perhaps it's for yours, young man. Je vous recommande la mere." I reflected a moment. "They came on account of Mr. Ruck because at hotels he's so restless." M. Pigeonneau gave me a knowing nod. "Of course he is, with such a wife as that a femme superbe.
A strange poodle flew at the Pomeranian, I drove off the poodle, rescued the Pomeranian, received the most gracious thanks, the sweetest smile: femme superbe, middle aged. I prefer women of forty. Au revoir, I am due at the club." Alain felt a sensation of relief that Lemercier had not seen the lady in the pearl-coloured dress, and quitted the Englishman with a lightened heart.
You would wonder to hear the praises they bestow upon him, and which indeed he richly deserves, though not one in ten of them understands a word he says. C'est beau! C'est magnifique! C'est superbe! C'est sublime!
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