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I did not dream any could know of the plan, or that my absence could cause this catastrophe." "So you went, eh, vaurien? You t'ought t'at be to do your duty, eh? And it was you who tole your sistaire?" "I may have told her, but not before she had the tale already from Blake." Feversham sneered and shrugged. "Natural you will not speak true. A traitor I 'ave observe' is always liar."
"Monsieur here," I said, pointing to the Colonel, who, in spite of all we could do, still held my lord tight, "was the aggressor, as you can see for yourselves. Oblige him, I pray you, to desist. He will do my lord some serious injury." "Is one an English milord, hein? Who, then, is the other?" "An abominable vaurien," I answered with great heat.
Leigh You DO know, you MUST know that a coarse discussion over her name was the cause of the duel between the Marquis Fontenelle and that miserable vaurien of the stage, Miraudin, gossip generously lays the two deaths at her door and the poor child is as innocent of harm as the lilies we have just seen left to die in the darkness of St. Cecilia's tomb.
"The father of a family with a comfortable home and a prosperous business can drill as well as the most careless vaurien, René; better, perhaps, for he will take much greater pains; but when it comes to fighting, half a dozen reckless daredevils are worth a hundred of him.
"My brother, at the importunity of his friends, and for the good of the county, consented to stand against this pet of Jefferson's, this this vaurien Lewis Rand. Some one had to stand. He knew what the result would be. 'Twas but a skirmish just a seat in a tri-colour Republican House of Delegates! My faith! the honour's not great. But wait awhile, Miss Dandridge! The real battle's not yet. Beaten!
And where the palace of the Tuileries once stood the pigeons now call to each other beneath the trees, while, near at hand, lolls on the public seat he whom France has always with her, the vaurien the worth-nothing. So passes the glory of the world. It is not a good thing to be born in a palace, nor to live in one.
But a pang of shame, of remorse, of tender remembrance, shot across the heart of the decorous, worldly, self-seeking man, who owed all that he now was to the ci-devant vaurien before him. Again he stretched forth his hand, and this time grasped De Mauleon's warmly. "Forgive me," he said, feelingly and hoarsely; "forgive me, I was to blame.
Vaurien of Rottenpalings, a young gentleman of a convivial and melodious turn of mind, who sang and played also as singing men are wont in more senses than one, and had 'ladies and gentlemen' down from town to stay with him; and they sang and played too; and so somehow between vingt-un and champagne-punch, Lancelot had not arrived at home till seven o'clock that morning, and was in a fit state to appreciate the feelings of our grandfathers, when, after the third bottle of port, they used to put the black silk tights into their pockets, slip on the leathers and boots, and ride the crop-tailed hack thirty miles on a winter's night, to meet the hounds in the next county by ten in the morning.
A young man has too much vigor to bear confinement so soon; he gives up many pleasures which he might have had, and does not appreciate at their just value those which he has. As it is said that the vaurien must precede the bon sujet, so I believe that for the full enjoyment of sedentary life one must have played the vagabond for a while. This brings me to the subject of my last letter.
No, she is not for Vanne Castine." Suddenly Shangois's manner changed; he laid his hand upon the other's shoulder. "My poor, wicked, good-for-nothing Vanne Castine, Christine Lavilette was not made for you. You are a poor vaurien, always a poor vaurien. I knew your father and your two grandfathers. They were all vauriens; all as handsome as you can think, and all died, not in their beds.
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