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And though Miss Bartlett and Miss Lavish had planned all the morning how the people were to sit, at the critical moment when the carriages came round they lost their heads, and Miss Lavish got in with Lucy, while Miss Bartlett, with George Emerson and Mr. Beebe, followed on behind. It was hard on the poor chaplain to have his partie carree thus transformed.
I would knock timidly and guiltily at her door and get no answer; I would knock again still silence. . . . I would stand near the door and listen; then the chambermaid would pass and say coldly, "Madame est partie."
Le canton, assez bien peuplé, l'est un partie par des Turcomans; mais il y a beaucoup d'herbages et de marais. L
"We might imagine coming upon our former selves over there, and travelling round with them a wedding journey 'en partie carree'." "Something like that. I call it a very poetical idea," she said with a sort of provisionality, as if distrusting another ambush. "It isn't so bad," he admitted. "How young we were, in those days!"
"And sit in the dark?" "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, first of all, we must choose our positions.
And then, as to the spooning, it was partie égale, the lady was no worse off than the gentleman. If there were by any hazard and this he was disposed to doubt 'affections' at stake, the man 'stood to lose' as much as the woman.
The McDaubrecq's fling!... The turkey trot!... And the bunny hug!... And the grizzly bear!... The Tyrolean dance: tra-la-liety!... Allons, enfants de la partie!... Zing, boum, boum! Zing, boum, boum!..."
Your rascal and mine have laid their heads together and condemned you. But they reckoned without you and me. We make a PARTIE CARREE, Prince, in love and politics. They lead an ace, but we shall trump it. Come, partner, shall I draw my card? 'Madam, he said, 'explain yourself. Indeed I fail to comprehend. 'See, then, said she; and handed him the order.
"In what Town soever ... there be any person or persons suspected to be witch or Witches, thither they send for two or all of the said searchers, who take the partie or parties so suspected into a Roome and strip him, her, or them, starke naked." And if they cannot kill them, then they may be sure they are her Impes."
What haue they done in Sicill, in Naples, Millaine, and in the Low countreis; who hath there bene spared for Religion at all: And it commeth to my remembrance of a certaine Burger of Antwerpe, whose house being entred by a company of Spanish souldiers, when they first sacked the Citie, hee besought them to spare him and his goods, being a good Catholique, and one of their owne partie and faction.
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