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That is the first thing youth ever thinks of. From very fulness of life, it can afford to be on familiar terms with death. "Tut; that is unnecessary. But would you do anything I asked of you as a personal favor?" "Only try me. I would go to the ends of the earth for you." "Tenez! suppose I was dying King Arthur and you my squire. Would you hesitate to fling away Excalibur at my command?"
I am sure it roused her pity, for it struck in her another thought always uppermost in the Marquesan bosom; and she began with a smiling sadness, and looking on me out of melancholy eyes, to lament the decease of her own people. 'Ici pas de Kanaques, said she; and taking the baby from her breast, she held it out to me with both her hands. 'Tenez a little baby like this; then dead.
"Mon cher," she exclaimed not to H.C., but to her spouse "don't send the gentlemen away at this time of night, and consign them to you know not what fate. Something can be managed. Tenez!" with uplifted hands and an inspiration, "ma bouchère! Mon cher, ma bouchère!"
Tenez!" he pointed, and at the head of the long street I saw advancing the front rank of a blue-coated regiment of Prussians, marching across Paris to take up position on the Orleans road. That was my answer. Paris had surrendered! And I had entered it from the south just in time, if I wished, to witness the entry of His Majesty the Emperor Alexander from the north.
Eh bien, mon maitre, in another moment in bounded the count, his eyes sparkling like coals, and, as I have already said, with a rapier in his hand. 'Tenez, gueux enrage, he screamed, making a desperate lunge at me, but ere the words were out of his mouth, his foot slipping on the pease, he fell forward with great violence at his full length, and his weapon flew out of his hand, comme une fleche.
She paused, as if to let this impress itself upon me, and added archly, "Tenez, Monsieur, there is a daughter " She stopped abruptly. I followed her glance, and my first impression of claret-color gave me a shock.
Mamzelle Maryette, if I should swear to you that he is on his third chicken and that a row of six pint bottles of ’93 Margaux stand empty on the cloth at his elbow, I should do no penance for untruthfulness. Tenez, Mamzelle Maryette, regardez un peu par l’oubliette " And old Julie slid open the wooden shutter on the crack and Maryette bent forward and surveyed the dining room outside.
I could not make out what the deuce she would be at. She looked at my companion, evidently much embarrassed. "Mais, mon Dieu!" croaked she, "pourrai-je seulement un moment? Tenez l
"Who the devil are you?" demanded Marble, kicking harder than ever." Open the cabin-doors, or I'll kick them down, and yourself overboard." "Monsieur sair," rejoined another voice, "tenez you air prisonnier. Comprenez-vous prisonair, eh?" "These are Frenchmen, Captain Marble," I exclaimed, "and we are in the hands of the enemy."
I opened it, therefore, at once, and was in the act of opening the second, when I felt myself seized by the collar by a strong hand; and on turning round saw the sturdy figure of the Concierge himself, with a drawn bayonet within a few inches of my throat, "Tenez, mon ami," said I quietly, and placing half a dozen louis, some of my recent spoils, in his hand, at once satisfied him that, even if I were a robber, I was at least one that understood and respected the conveniences of society.
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