Caught in the netCharles Scribner's Sons, 1913 |
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Page 104 - to render cutting and sarcastic, "had it not been for the imperative duty I before alluded to, I should not have intruded." And with these words he left the room, slamming the door behind him. " The deuce take the impudent fool!" muttered Andre. " I was strongly tempted to pitch him out of the window.
Page 119 - is the name of the estate that I intend to settle on madame." The painter examined the personage who had just addressed him with much curiosity. He was dressed in the height or rather the burlesque of fashion, wore an eyeglass, and an enormous locket on his chain. The face which surmounted all this grandeur
Page 175 - These words sent a pang through the heart of the Countess. Was it an allusion to the past? or had the phrase dropped from her husband's lips accidentally? or had he any suspicion of the influence that had been brought to bear upon her? She, however, had plenty of courage, and would rather meet misfortune
Page 287 - to your story," said Tantaine impatiently, " I know all about that." " I will leave you, then, to imagine all I said to the old man, who listened to me with great satisfaction. ' I only hope that you are as skilful as M. Catenac says you are, and have as much influence and power as you
Page 52 - In this favored spot millionaires seem to bloom like the rhododendron in the sunny south. There are the magnificent palaces which they have erected for their accommodation, where the turf is ever verdant, and where the flowers bloom perennially; but the most gorgeous of all these mansions was the Hotel de Mussidan, the last chef
Page 24 - Then the swell chap, says he, 'Do you promise?' and the gal, she answers back, ' Yes, at noon.' Then they parted. She went off to the Rue Hachette, and the masher tumbled into his wheelbox. The jarvey cracked his whip, and off they went in a brace of shakes. Now hand over them five francs.
Page 101 - first night I came to Paris. I was so exhausted that I did not awake for twelve hours. I ordered a good breakfast; and finding funds at a very low ebb, I started in search of work." Paul smiled. He, too, remembered his first day in Paris. He was twenty-two years of age, and
Page 316 - it that Van Klopen knew De Croisenois' name? And now, lastly, where is the receipt?" Madame de Bois Arden turned very pale and trembled violently. "Ah," said she, "I felt sure that something was going to happen, and it was on this very point that I wanted your advice. Well, I have not got
Page 284 - You are growing more reasonable now. Of course I came alone, but do you think that plenty of people did not know where I was going to? Had I not returned to-night, do you think that my master, M. Mascarin, would have been satisfied? and how long do you think
Page 104 - the photograph of a young lady, and, taking advantage of the artist's preoccupation, looked at it. " Pretty, very pretty!" remarked he. At these words the painter flushed crimson, and snatching away the photograph with some little degree of violence, thrust it between the leaves of a book. Andre was so evidently in a