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"This dear Louis!" repeated Charles. "My only relative in all the world. My cousin, Louis d'Arragon. But he, par exemple, spells his name in two words." The man bowed gravely a comprehensive bow; but he looked at Desiree. "This is my father-in-law," continued Charles breathlessly. "Monsieur Antoine Sebastian, and Desiree and Mathilde my wife, my dear Louis your cousin, Desiree."
At the Carmelites, in the Rue Saint Jacques, par exemple, the Queen-mother's favourite convent, and at Chaillot, the house founded by Queen Henrietta such pictures, and ornaments, and embroidered hangings, and tapestries worked by devotees. This room of yours, sister, stinks of poverty, as your Flemish streets stink of garlic and cabbage. Faugh! I know not which is worse!"
She began by rallying her correspondent on his indulging himself so charmingly in the melancholy of genius; and she prescribed as a cure to her malheureux imaginaire, as she called him, those joys of domestic life which he so well knew how to paint. "Precepte commence, exemple acheve," said her ladyship. "You will never see me la femme comme il y en a peu, till I see you le bon mari.
Par exemple: you buy or you sell so many barrels of flour, at such a price, on time, as it is called, that is, you engage to receive, or to deliver, so many barrels, at the prices and in the times agreed upon, in the hope, that, before the period of your contract comes round, prices will have so varied as to enable you to buy, or sell, the quantity bargained for, upon terms that will give you a profit.
"We are all," said Glanville, with a faint smile, "we are all, in the words of the true old proverb, 'children of a larger growth.'Our first toy is love our second, display, according as our ambition prompts us to exert it. Some place it in horses some in honours, some in feasts, and some voici un exemple in furniture.
That is why the supply of trained aunts is always so precarious. There is my Aunt Agatha, par exemple, who sent me a pair of gloves last Christmas, and even got so far as to choose a kind that was being worn and had the correct number of buttons. But they were nines!
"No, that you are not, Jeannette; you are a good girl, and some of these fine days I'll marry you," said Corbett. "Doit etre bien beau ce jour la, par exemple," replied Jeannette, laughing; "you have promised to marry me every time you have come in these last three years." "Well, that proves I keep to my promise, anyhow." "Yes; but you never go any further."
She did her best, quite intensely, by herself, to banish any such appearance; she couldn't help it if she couldn't read her pale novel ah, that, par exemple, was beyond her! but she could at least sit by the lamp with the book, sit there with her newest frock, worn for the first time, sticking out, all round her, quite stiff and grand; even perhaps a little too stiff and too grand for a familiar and domestic frock, yet marked none the less, this time, she ventured to hope, by incontestable intrinsic merit.
I haven't such a thing about me! Come, Par exemple! and Alice repeated the first thing she could remember, the verse beginning 'God, who madest earth and heaven. 'That's one of your charms, is it? Well, it would not be too much for me if my poor old memory would hold it. Say it again. Alice generally had about her a tiny prayer-book with 'Hymns, Ancient and Modern, attached.
"Ah, Monsieur Griffard, you are always so courtly!" cried the young man, flinging himself into an armchair. "Well, Monsieur Griffard," he continued, regarding himself at the same time in a little pocket-mirror to see whether his smooth hair had been rumpled, "if you have only got good news to tell me, I, on the other hand, have brought you nothing but bad." "Par exemple?" "Par exemple.
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