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Madame Zéphyrine, probably in the hope of enchanting the young American, used to flaunt by him on the stairs with a civil inclination, a word of course, and a knock-down look out of her black eyes, and disappear in a rustle of silk, and with the revelation of an admirable foot and ankle. But these advances, so far from encouraging Mr.
"I have studied his taste to a nicety, and I tell you again and again you are the only woman of the sort that I can lay my hands on." In answer to this, Madame Zephyrine sighed, and appeared by a gesture to resign herself, like one yielding to unqualified authority.
On the way he remembered the words he had heard pass between Madame Zéphyrine and the blond young man, and they gave him an indefinite uneasiness. "It appears," he reflected, "that every one has to tell lies to our porter." He rang the bell, the door opened before him, and the porter in his bed-clothes came to offer him a light. "Has he gone?" inquired the porter. "He?
The feast was a great success. The dolls behaved irreproachably, with which their owner was rather inclined to twit Hugh, when, just at the end of the banquet, greatly to his satisfaction, a certain Mademoiselle Zéphyrine, a blonde with flaxen ringlets and turquoise blue eyes, suddenly toppled over, something having no doubt upset her equilibrium, and fell flat on her nose on the table.
I resolved, more than ever, not to part with it, but to take it back to France with me, if ever I returned to that country. "At the hour of dinner, I repaired to the drawing-room, where I found Count Villaforte and Mademoiselle Zephyrine. I had scarcely closed the door, when it was reopened, and the lieutenant put in his head. "'Captain! said he, in a hurried voice. "'Who calls me captain?
Yet her title was tinged with romance, and Coralie's display had aroused in me an interest in her sex which even herself had failed to satisfy entirely. Brayed in by trumpets, Zephyrine swung passionately into the arena.
Zephyrine, Pelagie, and Suzette; the two last were commonplace personages enough; their look was ordinary, their manner was ordinary, their temper was ordinary, their thoughts, feelings, and views were all ordinary were I to write a chapter on the subject I could not elucidate it further.
"'Zephyrine is really here, then? "'Certainly she is. A prisoner like myself. "'And Count Villaforte? "'Is Captain Tonino. "'And the castle? "'A den of thieves. "'That is all I wanted to know. Adieu, my dear Louet. Tell Zephyrine she shall soon hear from me. So saying, he plunged into the forest. "'Here, Romeo, here! cried Mr. Beaumanoir to his dog, who was fetching the bird he had shot.
"The sudden change from the light of day to the darkness of the cave, prevented him from seeing us. Zephyrine made me a sign to keep silence. After remaining for a moment as if dazzled, his eyes got accustomed to the darkness. He bounded towards us with the spring of a tiger. "'Zephyrine, why don't you answer when I call? Come!
Madame Zephyrine, probably in the hope of enchanting the young American, used to flaunt by him on the stairs with a civil inclination, a word of course, and a knock-down look out of her black eyes, and disappear in a rustle of silk, and with the revelation of an admirable foot and ankle. But these advances, so far from encouraging Mr.
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