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"You had better not," said the other blusteringly. "You had better not!" "Oh, as to that ..." said Jean with anger. M. Plon retreated a second time before this demonstration, and again lifted his voice for the police. "They'll be here fast enough, no doubt," said Jean quietly, though there was a bitter feeling of downfall in his heart.
"And my my locataire is shot!" murmured Plon, panic-struck. But the man whose mission was ended, turned round without another word and went out into the lurid darkness. The landlord made a trembling effort to stagger across the passage, and to pluck at Marie's gown. When he spoke, his voice quavered with fright. "Come, come, Madame Didier, go upstairs, and and cry there like a good woman.
"But she is as hungry as we are," pleaded Marie, "and see, M. Plon has given me a cabbage, I can manage something." He was, however, inexorable; and his wife, always afraid of his committing some imprudence, though on the whole Jean might be trusted to take care of himself, said sorrowfully: "Périne, my poor child, you must go; there is no dinner for you today.
Plon, who was recovering his pomposity, pressed forward, and laid a hand on the soldier's arm. "Don't worry her, sergeant," he said, "her husband has just been shot." "Serve him right," said the man brutally. "Are there more of the brood about?" "Not a soul. They lived here alone, these two." "Well, we'll see." "No cupboards here," said a soldier, whose face was bleeding from a bayonet scratch.
Marie was crying, and M. Plon thought his eloquence had provoked her tears, but she put aside his hand, walked to the commissioner, and dropped on her knees before him. "Monsieur, if you have a wife " "I have not," said the man roughly. "But your mother! If her son " "I have my duty, that is enough," he said in the same tone, "Get up, Madame Didier, and let me know the truth of all this matter.
Unfortunately, in the process religion has disappeared from Prussian soil, and with the liberating influence of the Christian religion has vanished political liberty. Georges Bourdon, “L’Enigme Allemande,” Librairie Plon, Paris. The present investigation into Franco-German relations conducted on behalf of the Figaro is the work of one of the ablest publicists of modern France.
In fact, my dear, I'm humbly anxious that Sir Gilbert should propose; and as he's been rather nice, and as he's written almost asking for an invitation to come down with Stan, from next Saturday to Monday, although he carefully states he's been invited for the same time, by Princess Paul of Plon, things look hopeful. The only trouble is you." "Me!" "Yes, you.
Here it isn't safe. Besides, if they know who you are, I might be compromised. Poor Jean! Heavens! For a volley of rifle shot poured down the street, a rush of feet followed; and Plon fled precipitously to his den, double-bolted his door, and rolled his mattress round him for protection.
M. Plon's visits were rare, and she discouraged them with all her might, yet when he arrived panting and puffing at the door, she was standing by the stove working, with a little coquettish air of greeting about her. "You don't mean to say that you have brought the journal yourself, M. Plon!
There is no weakness in any chapter, and as we read so secure do we feel in the author's strength that, had he chosen to end the story in sorrow and not in joy, we should submit as though to an inflexible decree of Fate. Les Koumiassine. Par Henry Gréville. Paris: Plon.
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