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And your whole biography, too, in black and white; your wife, your children, your past career ... what it is to be a capitalist!" "Tiens! I never saw this. And printed in Paris a fortnight ago! But it may be lying somewhere about the house. I only returned at midday, you know. Not exactly a flattering likeness...." The document was handed round.
The servants, when they came down at an early hour, had found her up and dressed, or rather, apparently, not undressed, for she wore the same clothes as the evening before. 'Tiens! exclaimed Josephine, after seeing her, 'Madame gained ten years yesterday; she has gained ten more during the night.
"Indeed it is enough to take away even a cardinal's breath," answered Madame Mayer. "I was never, never so surprised in my life!" Gouache stood up to get a view of his work, and Donna Tullia looked at him critically. "Tiens!" she exclaimed, "it is rather becoming what small ankles you have, Gouache!" Anastase laughed.
His first letter from Lorraine! He opened it feverishly. In the middle of a thin sheet of note-paper was written the motto of the De Nesvilles, "Tiens ta Foy." Beneath, in a girlish hand, a single line: "I shall wait for you at dusk. Lorraine." All night long, as he lay half asleep on his pillow, the words repeated themselves in his drowsy brain: "Tiens ta Foy!" "Tiens ta Foy!"
"Tiens, tiens!" cried the soldier, "v'la qui parle le Francais peu s'en faut," and he seated himself by Gerard, and in a moment was talking volubly of war, women, and pillage, interlarding his discourse with curious oaths, at which Gerard drew away from him more or less.
Consider the length, the line, the eloquence of design! Ah, Monsieur, once again, you are an artist! The Cure shall wear it indeed but he shall! Then I shall look like him, and perhaps get credit for some of his perfections." "And the Cure?" said Charley. "The Cure? the Cure? Tiens, a little of my worldliness will do him good. There are no contrasts in him. He must wear the coat."
"Did she try to interpret this dream?" "No." "Why did she tell you about it?" "She acted on a sudden impulse, so she says. I'm inclined to believe her; but never mind that. Pougeot," he rose in agitation and stood leaning over his friend, "in that forest scene she brought up something that isn't known, something I've never even told you, my best friend." "Tiens! What is that?"
"Come, come, I want to know about the tailor, not of ghosts," impatiently interrupted the Seigneur. "Tiens! M'sieu', the tailor was ill for three days here, and he would let no one except the Cure and Jo Portugais near him. I went myself to clean up and make some broth, but that toad of a Portugais shut the door in my face. The Cure told us to go home and leave M'sieu' with Portugais.
"C'est un petit garçon de l'Armistice" with a happy blush. "Ah, let us hope that he will always be a little child of peace." But in another moment she is playing with him, chucking him under the chin. "Tiens, mon coco! Viens, mon petit soldat you must grow up strong and big, for you are another little soldier for France."
The Prince's somber eyes passed unseeing over these articles of human furniture. "If only I don't get a sign," he said; "like going out without my Mexican coin, you know that would be a sign. If only I can avoid that and a couple of other things I'll be ready enough for Monsieur Carigny when he comes." "Tiens!" said Dupontel. "You and your signs, c'est epatant!"
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