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His want of localism, moreover, was not so great as that if it should turn out that there was anything beneath his manner toward Biddy ! The upshot of this reflexion might have been represented by the circumstance of her ladyship's remarking after a minute to her younger daughter, who sat opposite her in the voiture de place, that it would do no harm if she should get a new hat and that the search might be instituted that afternoon.
Le propriétaire de voiture, Gonsalvi, domicilié
Arrived at the station nearest to Montcourtois; then the voiture from the hotel with the grinning Victor on the box, and Laurent waiting. 'No bad news' asked Paul. 'Things are not quite what they might be or what they should be, Laurent answered. 'But get in, and we will talk as we drive.
"I remember only that you made yourself ill eating Madelaines and had to be taken home en voiture," Collier Pratt said quickly. "We will go and have some coffee at the Café des Artistes, and discuss ships and shoes and sealing wax anything but the art of painting." "And cabbages and kings," Sheila contributed ecstatically.
Although these were devoid of travelers, the conductor opened the doors of all the carriages, and after waiting the allotted time shouted mechanically, "En voiture," though there was absolutely no one to get in. I thought we never would arrive! All the little towns, once so thrifty and prosperous, are now hardly more than ruins. Everything was terribly changed.
"And then," said Aramis, pinching his ear to make it red, as he rubbed his hands to make them white, "and then I made a certain RONDEAU upon it last year, which I showed to Monsieur Voiture, and that great man paid me a thousand compliments." "A RONDEAU!" said the Jesuit, disdainfully. "A RONDEAU!" said the curate, mechanically. "Repeat it!
At the feet of these noble ladies reclined a number of young seigneurs, dangling their little hats surcharged with plumes, while their mantles of silk and gold were spread loosely on the floor. And there, in more grave attire, were the professional litterateurs, such as Balzac, Voiture, Menage, Scudery, Chaplain, Costart, Conrad, and the Abbe Bossuet. The Cupid of the hotel was strictly Platonic.
'En voiture, Messieurs, Mesdames, sings the Doctor; and on we go again at a good round pace, for black care follows hard after us, and discretion prevails not a little over valour in some timorous spirits of the party. At any moment we may meet the sergeant, who will send us back. At any moment we may encounter a flying shell, which will send us somewhere farther off than Grez.
"I. That the two Kingdoms of England and Scotland shall, upon the first of May next ensuing the date hereof and for ever after, be united into one Kingdom by the name of Great Britain...." Mais en voiture! This narrow gauge on which we now are, is not half bad. We have a fore and aft carriage, the seats on either side we can turn into beds, and there is a third folding up berth above one of these.
So, there it is, all settled. Cedarquist and the girls are gone on ahead, and you are to take the old lady like a dear, dear poet. I believe I hear the carriage. Allons! En voiture!" Once settled in the cool gloom of the coupe, odorous of leather and upholstery, Mrs. Cedarquist exclaimed: "And I've never told you who you were to dine with; oh, a personage, really.
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