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And though I was reviled for not bringing them better cheer, yet I pacified them by smiling like my aunt, and echoing her "Attendez, messieurs, s'il vous plait;" and started forth again on my foraging expedition, though very doubtful of having anything to bring back. How long were these horrible men going to stay? How could we go on supplying their wants at this rate?
Tell them to remember the sermon of the wheat. And now, good friend," said the priest, summoning all his strength, "attendez!" He drew a thin, white hand from beneath the cover, carrying a tiny crucifix. "I want you to send this to my beloved mother by registered post; send it yourself, please, so that she may have it before the end of the year. This will be my last Christmas gift to her.
But she had not quitted the room before Madame de Fontanges had changed her mind. "Attendez, Manchette. Ce n'est pas ca. Je voudrois de limonade. Charlotte, va l'en chercher." "Oui, madame," said Charlotte, leaving the room to execute the order. "Ah! mon Dieu! qu'il fait une chaleur epouvantable." "Mimi, que tu es paresseuse? Eventez! vite, vite." "Ou est Monsieur?" "Monsieur dort."
"Faudra bien qu'il reste ici je ne vois pas d'autre moyen," said the Father. "Enfin on verra. Attendez quelques instants." "C'est bien." Brother Etienne went out. Ol' Chief was pulling the Boy's sleeve during the little colloquy, and saying, "You tell." But the Boy got up like one who means to make an end. "You haven't any time or strength for this "
"Ma foil!" exclaimed Mademoiselle. She seized an end of the boa and drew Gwendolyn to her knee. "You make ze head buzz. Come!" She reached for a book on the school-room table. "Attendez!" "Mademoiselle," persisted Gwendolyn, twining and untwining, "if I do my French fast will you tell me something? What does nouveaux riches mean?" "Nouveaux riches," said Mademoiselle, "is not on ziss page.
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