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But when the president had disappeared: "Ma foi!" said he, "I shall not go. Your company is better than his." And while poking fun at the show, Rodolphe, to move about more easily, showed the gendarme his blue card, and even stopped now and then in front of some fine beast which Madame Bovary did not at all admire.
What think you of this, M. de Luynes?" He shot a furtive glance at me as he spoke, and with his long, lean forefinger he combed his beard in a nervous fashion. I gave a short laugh to cover my embarrassment at the question. "What do I think, Monsieur?" I echoed to gain time. Then, thinking that a sententious answer would be the most fitting, "Ma foi!
"Ma foi!" rejoined the polite Frenchman, "so much the worse for you." Surely we may have charity for Oldfield, when she dispensed the same virtue to those around her. Towards none did she show it more sweetly than to that disreputable fraud and alleged man of genius, Richard Savage.
"Ma foi, I had all but forgotten, so much has Monsieur de Lavedan's fate preoccupied us." He picked up another paper from his table, and tossed it to me. It was my note of hand to Chatellerault for my Picardy estates. "Chatellerault died this morning," the King pursued.
What a surprise, ma foi. I yearn to hear of the dénouement. "'We will nab the fourth man who has stayed behind, whispered the officer, and we crept towards the boat-house. We were ten yards away when he issued forth and turned to lock the door. Then we sprang upon him. He was very quick like the big snake that he was. He heard us, spun round, and struck two blows of his fist.
The Duc de Bouillon cast a glance at Monsieur, which decided him. "Ma foi!" said he, with deliberation, "if you give orders, my sister, I will be the captain of your guards, on my honor, for I too am weary of the vexations occasioned me by this knave.
Something substantial had to be put in their place. Ma foi, I put it there," in the executive power. There it is, completely in his hands; other authorities to him are merely for show or as instruments. The mutes of the Corps Legislatif come annually to Paris to keep silent for four months; one day he will forget to convoke them, and nobody will remark their absence.
"Remain, Raoul, since monseigneur permits it," said Athos. "Ma foi! he is tall and handsome!" continued the duke. "Will you give him to me, monseigneur, if I ask him of you?" "How am I to understand you, monseigneur?" said Athos. "Why, I call upon you to bid you farewell." "Farewell!" "Yes, in good truth. Have you no idea of what I am about to become?"
"Ah, I moche fear I remain prisonare here to do end of de war," sighed Monsieur Vinoy; "but, ma foi, I am too happy in dis charmante ville vid dese aimable young ladies to vish to leave. It was de fortune de la guerre vich brought me here, and I vill not complain." "You might certainly have been much worse off," observed Captain Dupin.
Ma foi, I feel altogether crushed, for I had really flattered myself that the sketch was not altogether without merit." When the laugh had subsided Cuthbert said "Courage, René, Goudé's bark is always worse than his bite, and I have no doubt he will take a much more favorable view of it as you get on." "It is all very well for you to say so," René said, ruefully.
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