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The general sent his adjutant for the countess. When the adjutant had closed the door General Andre began abruptly: "The chauffeur Briand," he asked, "you know him; you can vouch for him?" "But, certainly!" protested Marie. "He is an Italian." As though with sudden enlightenment, Marie laughed. It was as if now in the suspicion of the officer she saw a certain reasonableness.
It is a melancholy fact, which those best acquainted with London society can vouch for, that her 'swells' are a very ephemeral race. Take the last five-and-twenty years say from the days of the Golden Ball and Pea-green Hayne down to those of Molly C l and Mr. D-l-f-ld and see what a succession of joyous no, not joyous, but rattling, careless, dashing, sixty-percenting youths we have had.
I have given them as they were repeated to me, but I can personally vouch for the following fact. On approaching the object, it was discovered to be a man lying on the ground with his hands tied behind him, his throat half severed, with three stabs in his breast, and two gashes across the stomach.
That was what I saw in his face as he stood on the crossing, with the noon sunshine caught in his tawny hair and beard. Rhoda, Edith, and I have each made a story about him, and each of us would vouch for the truth of her particular version. I will not tell mine, but this is Rhoda's; and while it differs from my own in several important particulars, it yet bears an astonishing resemblance to it.
This station-master was even more unemotional than the last. He asked me if I knew anybody who could vouch for me I mentioned Herbert diffidently. He had never even heard of Herbert. I showed him my gold watch, my silver cigarette case, and my emerald and diamond tie-pin that was the sort of man I was.
Now there are a dozen truthful women who will vouch for the truth of what happened. When Nancy leaned over the bed, as if in obedience to the power of an electric shock, the corpse's eyes flew open, Ann Pease rose up in bed and pointing a trembling finger at her frightened namesake exclaimed: "Go 'way f'om me, Nancy Rogers, don't you daih to tech me. You ain't got de come-uppance of me yit.
The cheapest wholesome wine I have ever drunk off the Continent is a thin vin ordinaire, smelling like piquette, which is sold at a certain rather low-looking shop in Melbourne. It is quite palatable, and when heavily watered I can vouch for its wholesomeness.
Considering the shortcomings we had to put up with bare tables, hungry bellies, and the lively movements of our ship, consequent on a rising malevolent sea I think we managed to enjoy a fair amount of fun, whether it was genuine or not is another point, nor would I like to vouch for its being altogether devoid of irony.
"I suppose we shall be entertained a great deal," remarked Isabel. "He has written to Mamma, but she hasn't had time to answer yet." "I can vouch for my foster son," Madame replied. "It isn't necessary," the girl went on, "and I told him so. Mamma never cares what I do, and she'll be glad to get me off her hands. Would you mind if I were married here?" Madame's heart throbbed with tender pity.
Lyall reports a case of this sort in recent times: the French officer Raymond in Hyderabad is said to have been worshiped as a god. Other cases are reported as occuring in Samoa and in India. Rivers mentions traditions among the Todas of Southern India which, he thinks, may vouch for the worship of gods who were originally men, but implicit reliance cannot be placed on such traditions.
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