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The professor replaced Malus and the essay on him in the ten-sous stall, without remarking how often hope had been lit and extinguished alternately in the gray eyes of an old woman seated on a stool in an angle of the quay. "He was there," Marmus said, pointing to the Tuileries on the opposite bank of the river. "I saw him reviewing his sublime troops!
Velazquez is my God, and and he has too many prophets to mention! I was devout once for three months since then I have never had as much faith of the Church sort as would lie on a ten-sous piece. But' with a sudden whimsical change of voice 'I am as credulous as a Breton fisherman, and as superstitious as a gipsy! Wait and see. Will you look at my pictures? She sprang up and showed her sketches.
There was no such thing as a ten-sous piece to be found. "Pray, M'sieur Basil," said she, "have you one?" "One what?" I ejaculated, startled out of my reverie. "Why, a ten-sous piece, to be sure. Don't you see that Mam'selle Hortense is waiting in her wet shoes, and that I have been hunting for the last five minutes, and can't find one anywhere?"
"You had twenty-seven sous in your purse this morning, and the quarter of a chicken will do me." "But, godmother, that money " "Well, what about that money?" "It's gone; I have only a few sous left." "And where are those two ten-sous pieces? Will you answer me?" "I I don't know," faltered the girl, reproaching herself bitterly for spending her money on the letters.
Georges presented the open case to Oscar and Schinner. "Phew!" said the great painter; "ten-sous cigars!" "The remains of those I brought back from Spain," said the adventurer. "Do you breakfast here?" "No," said the artist. "I am expected at the chateau. Besides, I took something at the Lion d'Argent just before starting." "And you?" said Georges to Oscar. "I have breakfasted," replied Oscar.
Neither was the fair Natalie indisposed to listen to his addresses; but her father could not be expected to countenance the suit of a gentleman, however well-born, who had not a ten-sous piece in the world, and whose prospects were a blank.
The toad, of surprising dimensions, was less alarming in himself than through the effect of two topaz eyes, large as a ten-sous piece, which cast forth vivid gleams. It was impossible to endure that look. The toad is a creature as yet unexplained.
And he repeated that since she showed herself good-natured he had no idea of creating any scandal. A mother who did what she could performed her duty, even though she might only give a ten-sous piece. Then, as he was at last going off, he inquired: "Won't you kiss me?"
Neither was the fair Natalie indisposed to listen to his addresses; but her father could not be expected to countenance the suit of a gentleman, however well-born, who had not a ten-sous piece in the world, and whose prospects were a blank.
Neither was the fair Natalie indisposed to listen to his addresses, but her father could not be expected to countenance the suit of a gentleman, however well-born, who had not a ten-sous piece in the world, and whose prospects were a blank.
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