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M. Armand opened the doors which concealed the central drawers. "Voil
It was first lighted when I was at sea; but I have seen a description of it in the newspapers, and should know it well." "Ver goot; you will try to come to dat light an' den you will steer out from dis place to de open sea. Afterwards we will show you to France. If you try mischief voil
But I could be, or at least seem, abruptly irrelevant too. 'Mademoiselle is she up? 'Ah, yes, monsieur. Mademoiselle has been up since eight. She awaits you in the salon. La voil
"Ah! it is a goddess, Mademoiselle, that has deigned to enter the cell where where I amuse myself. It is droll, is it not? I came here to make what you call the experiment of your father's fabric. I make myself ha! ha! like a workman. Ah, bah! the heat, the darkness, the plebeian motion make my head to go round. I stagger, I faint, I cry out, I fall. But what of that? The great God hears my cry and sends me an angel. Voil
Or you, Marie? René?" "A tear?" ventured Sara Lee. "But do I look like weeping?" He did not, indeed. He stood, tall and young and smiling before them, and produced from his pocket the walnut. "Perceive!" he said, breaking it open and showing the kernel. "Has human eye ever before seen it?" He thrust it into Marie's open mouth. "And it is gone! Voil
"I know it," he replied, impatiently. "She has a pretty, sentimental Madonna face; a sweet voice; a gentle manner et voil
Our recess finished last Monday, and never at school did I enjoy holidays so much but, les voil
"Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed description, I eliminated everything from it which could be the result of a disguise, the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I sent it to the firm with a request that they would inform me whether it answered to the description of any of their travelers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business address, asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his reply was typewritten, and revealed the same trivial but characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the description tallied in every respect with that of their employee, James Windibank. Voil
Sarah would watch. Then, without a word, she would slip from her seat, and, walking solemnly, rather haughtily, would join some group of children. Day after day the same children came to the gardens, and they all of them knew Sarah by now. Hortense, in her turn also, sitting, stiff and superior, would watch. She would see Sarah's pleasant approach, her smile, her amiability. Very soon, however, there would be trouble some child would cry out; there would be blows; nurses would run forward, scoldings, protests, captives led away weeping ... and then Sarah would return slowly to her seat, her gaze aloof, cynical, remote. She would carefully explain to Hortense the reason of the uproar. She had done nothing her conscience was clear. These silly little idiots. She would break into French, culled elaborately from Hortense, would end disdainfully "mais, voil
"You mix things up, chère madame, and I have it on my heart to tell you so. I believe it's rather the case with you other English, and I've never been able to learn that either your morality or your talent is the gainer by it. To be too respectable to go where things are done best is in my opinion to be very vicious indeed; and to do them badly in order to preserve your virtue is to fall into a grossness more shocking than any other. To do them well is virtue enough, and not to make a mess of it the only respectability. That's hard enough to merit Paradise. Everything else is base humbug! Voil
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