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And already, forgetting his wounds, and his bruises, his hair-breadth escape, and the terrible scenes in which he had that day acted a part, the knight, as he reached the tent of King Louis, and prepared to dismount, half chanted, half sung, the lines with which Blacas concludes his simple song: Je ferai ma pénitence, Entre mer et Durance, Auprès de son manoir.
"Dix francs, et je ferai fortune dix francs, et je ferai fortune " The old words seemed to set themselves to a tune in Madelon's head, chiming in with the croupier's perpetual "Rouge gagne et la couleur," "Rouge perd et la couleur," whilst the two precious coins grew warm in the little hand that was clasped so tightly over them.
They applied to Carrier, as being best acquainted with their distress, and were answered in this language: "Demandez, pour Nantes! je solliciterai qu'on porte le fer et la flamme dans cette abominable ville. Vous etes tous des coquins, des contre- revolutionnaires, des brigands, des scelerats, je ferai nommer une commission par la Convention Nationale.
Urged with the rest never to go unarmed and to stay close with the caravan, Dubois-Desaulle's only reply was a laughing, "Jamais! Jamais. Je ne porte pas des armes pour ces babouins! Je les ferai s'enfuir avec des batons! N'inquiètez pas de moi."
'Oh, fie! wat shame! Do you not perceive, dearest cheaile, how much education you still need? You are proud, little demoiselle; you must become, on the contrary, quaite humble. Je ferai baiser le babouin
"Give me only ten francs, et je ferai fortune!" The old speech that she had quoted years ago to Horace Graham though, indeed, she had no remembrance of having done so was familiar to her now as then. Ah! she knew how fortunes were made, and Monsieur Horace did not that was strange, but it was evident to her and she would not tell him.
The English critic, he said, wrote in the Tintinum, and he looked dubiously at me when I confessed that I had never heard of the organ in question. "'Pourtant, he said, 'je vous le ferai voir, and I soon perceived that Jasmin's Tintinum was no other than the Athenaeum!
A Man was sitting near a Lady & very angry he was, & attempted often to hiss, but was for some time kept quiet by the Lady. At last he lost all Patience and exclaimed, "Ma Foi, Madame, Je ferai ici comme si jétais en Angleterre où on fait tout ce qu'on plait." And away he went to hiss; with what effect his determination a l'Angloise was attended, I have mentioned.
C'est le seul jour que je puisse passer chez moi; et encore je n'en suis pas absolument certaine mais je ferai tellement mon possible, que ma bonne etoile m'y aidera peut-etre un peu. Agreez mille remerciments de coeur ainsi que Monsieur Browning, que j'espere voir avec vous, pour la sympathie que vous m'accordez. George Sand. Paris: 12 fevrier '52."
'Eh bien! mademoiselle, I shall say gently the next time I'm reproved, 'Je ferai mon possible! and by means of these choice little French phrases and a perfectly clean pair of shoes, my reputation will improve. Voyez!"
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