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At last, with mysterious roguishness, he inquired what it contained, and on being answered, shook his head with kindly incredulity. "NON," said he, "NON, VOUS AVEZ DES PORTRAITS." And then with a languishing appeal, "VOYONS, show me the portraits!" It was some little while before the Arethusa, with a shout of laughter, recognised his drift.
Esther learned a good deal from Jacques who, despite his desperado exterior, proved to be friendly and communicative, glad no doubt of someone to chat with since his master was so particularly reserved. His master, Jacques confided about the third day, was not a man at all but a machine. Work, work, work day and night, no thought for comfort, no distractions, no voices. Voyons!
Voyons, thirteen points at a pound it is easy to calculate;" and drawin out his puss, he clinked over the table 13 goolden suverings, which shon till they made my eyes wink. So did pore Dawkinses, as he put out his hand, all trembling, and drew them in. Dawkinses eyes glissened as he put the money up, and said, "Law, Deuceace, you flatter me." FLATTER him! I should think he did.
Mind you treat her well, or you shall hear some news of me. But you look as if you were good. I am told you are very remarkable. I have heard all sorts of extraordinary things about you. Voyons, are they true?" "I don't know what you can have heard," said Newman. "Oh, you have your legende. We have heard that you have had a career the most checkered, the most bizarre.
Moreen herself took to appealing to him as a man of the world; she said "Voyons, mon cher," and "My dear man, look here now"; and urged him to be reasonable, putting it before him that it was truly a chance for him. She spoke as if, according as he should be reasonable, he would prove himself worthy to be her son's tutor and of the extraordinary confidence they had placed in him.
Voyons, coquin, n'y-a-t-il pas par hasard une visiteuse de la partie." "Une 'Waistcoat' par example? de quarante ans environ, le drap un peu râpé . . ." "Qui se nomme Dorothée ce que veut dire le gilet dieudonné . . ." "Easy now!" the Orderly's voice remonstrated. "Easy, I tell you, ye born mill-clappers! There's a lady in the party, if that's what you're asking."
Lavendie said impatiently: "Voyons, Henriette, causez d'autre chose." His wife plucked nervously at a fold in her red gown, and gave him the look of a dog that has been rebuked. "I am a prisoner here, mademoiselle, I never leave the house. Here I live day after day my husband is always painting. Who would go out alone under this grey sky of yours, and the hatreds of the war in every face?
"You darling," he whispered, "you brave, beautiful darling! I love you! I love you!" And he would have said it still again had not his lips been closed by her warm, red lips. So they stood silent, she limp in his arms, gasping, thrilling, weeping and laughing, he feasting insatiable on her lips, on the fragrance of her hair, on the lithe roundness of her body. "Voyons, voyons!" warned the guard.
“Oh, voyons,” she protested. “I am aware that you are very much younger, but the similitudes of opinions, origins and perhaps at bottom, faintly, of character, of chivalrous devotion—no, you must be able to understand him in a measure. He is infinitely scrupulous and recklessly brave.”
If I had left this affair to chance there might very easily have been, as you suggest, murder done though we do not call it murder in the desert. It was very simple. Voyons! You paid Mustafa Ali well to guide you in the desert. I paid him better to lead you to me.
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