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Updated: May 5, 2025
He was out of breath, and as became a man who had rushed across Paris with good news, only to find himself involved in unforeseen trouble, his face was flushed and distorted. "Que veux-tu, toi?" asked Nana roughly, using the second person singular in open mockery of the count. "What what do I " he stammered. "I've got it for you you know what." "Eh?" He hesitated.
And the women of her acquaintance, mostly professional, were in poverty. They had the same cry, "My dear, lend me ten francs." "My little Elodie, I am on the rocks, my man is killed." "Ma bien aimee, I am starving. You who are at ease, let me come and eat with you" and so on and so on. Her heart grieved for them; but que veux-tu? one was not a charitable institution.
"Aren't you pleased, Katherine?" he asked with a man's selfishness. "I suppose I must be for your sake. But I must also sigh a little. I knew you would be falling in love sooner or later only I hoped it would be later. But que veux-tu? It is the doom of all such friendships." "I don't see anything like a doom about it, my dear," said he. "The friendship will continue. Viviette loves you dearly."
"Thank God," she said, "I can hear you talk like that at last." He escorted her down the stone stairs and through the lobby to her car, and they were objects of many admiring eyes. When they reached it she said, with a humorous curl of the lip, "Veux-tu m'epouser maintenant?" "Wait, only wait," said he. "These are only fireworks. Very soon we'll get to the real thing."
Like most juniors here, the youth knew French, or rather Gaboon-French; it was somewhat startling to hear clearly and tolerably pronounced, "M'sieur, veux-tu des macacques?" But the jargon is not our S'a Leone and West-coast "English;" the superior facility of pronouncing the neo-Latin tongues became at once apparent.
Sir Claude turned to a porter. "When does the train go?" The man looked up at the station-clock. "In two minutes. Monsieur est placé?" "Pas encore." "Et vos billets? vous n'avez que le temps." Then after a look at Maisie, "Monsieur veut-il que je les prenne?" the man said. Sir Claude turned back to her. "Veux-tu lieu qu'il en prenne?"
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