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Updated: April 30, 2025
After a long discussion as to whether tumbler was masculine or feminine, and as to whether "Ai-je laisse un verre ici?" or "Est-ce que j'ai laisse un verre ici?" was the proper query, we retraced our steps, Salemina asking in one shop, "Excusez-moi, je vous prie, mais ai-je laisse un verre ici?", and I in the next, "Je demands pardon, Madame, est-ce que j'ai laisse un verre dans ce magasin-ci?
"Lots!" said he, cordially. "But first let us try what we can do with Bobby. Do you ever drink a petit verre, Monsieur le Sergeant de Ville?" with a winning smile to the wooden policeman. The latter looked at the floor. "No," said he. "Never?" "Never!" "Well, I was only thinking that over on the Corner of the Rue Taitbout one finds excellent wine at twenty francs."
She rose quickly from the table, and, announcing to the company that she was going to inspect her lace, excused herself and followed the young man from the room. Henriette, thus left alone with the two men, went and took a seat by herself in the embrasure of a window, while they remained seated at the table and went on talking in a loud tone. "Captain, you'll have a petit verre with me.
For some time Claude de Verré lived peacefully and happily with Anne Allard, rejoicing in the possession of an affectionate wife, managing his property carefully, and even adding to the attractiveness and value of the family estate of Chauvigny.
"You're such a demanding person." "I know I am about the way things are done. What pleasure is there in anything which offends your sense of fitness?" "You bestow far too much importance on the outside of the cup and platter." Nan shook her head. "Mon verre n'est pas grand, mais Je bois dans mon verre." she quoted, frivolously obstinate. "Bah!"
The clock of the cafe struck nine, the hour at which Gendemar always retired, so calling to the waiter for his petit verre of brandy, he placed his newspaper upon the table, and putting both his elbows upon it, and his chin upon his hands, he stared full in Trevanion's face, with a look of the most derisive triumph, meant to crown the achievement of the evening.
He was presented to the members of the family, and they recognised him readily; although they did not fail to notice certain distinctions of feature and manner between him and the Claude de Verré who had gone to join the regiment of Clanleu.
The terrasses were withdrawn from the cafes. No longer could the philosophic Parisian sip his petit verre and watch the drama of the boulevards from the shady side of a marble-topped table. He must sit indoors like an Englishman, in the darkness of his public-house, as though ashamed of drinking in the open.
I required a considerable supply of hot water early in the morning wherewith to fill my portable indiarubber bath a perpetual source of amusement in the Lozere-and he seemed to think that a warm bath, like a cigarette or a petit verre, was a luxury to be indulged in at all hours of the day.
"Captain Gualtiere," said my father, holding out his hand, "as an old sailor, sir, to one of the same noble profession, I thank you for your kindness to my son." "Mon capitaine, I you embrace with my heart whole!" cried the French skipper. "It is vell, Capitaine Ugglees-stone. Ve vill land ourselves. Mon vieux brave to your home, and trink von 'tit verre of ze bon spee-reete vis ze friens. Come."
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