Wolf-lureAppleton, 1917 - 414 pages |
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Adrienne began Bertrand Boulaye breath brigadier Brisco broke Castel-Rozac caves Chouan cliff castle close Comte de Ruffeleu countenance cousin cried dark doctor door doubt drew EGERTON CASTLE English Enguerrand exclaimed eyes face fell fellow felt Fézensac flung French gave gaze gendarme gentleman gesture Giscourt glance Gontran Guyenne hand head hear heard heart honor hound hour Jurançon kind knew Langévol laugh leaped lips looked Loup-Cervier Louradour Louvecelle Louvetier Mademoiselle de Ruffeleu majordomo Maréchal Millac Monsieur le comte Monsieur le préfet Monsieur Montbars Montauban Muscade never night once paused poor Rodez rose Roubilliac Rouergue round Rozac Sazerac seemed shoulder side silence smile sound stared stone stood strange struck suddenly sure Tarbes tell thought tone took turned Vicomte Vidocq voice wild wolf Wolf-master wolf's head words young
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Page 262 - there is a time to speak, and a time to keep silence." One meets with people in the world, who seem never to have made the last of these observations. And yet these great talkers do not...
Page 158 - Time Has mouldered into beauty many a tower, Which, when it frowned with all its battlements, Was only terrible...
Page 80 - I am glad to hear it. I am glad to hear it." These were his last words on the occasion. But before the day was over he told his wife that he thought the place was not as comfortable as usual, and that the Frau with her high prices was more upsetting than ever. His wife, who took delight in being called Madame Weiss at Brixen, and who considered...
Page 395 - ... letter to some of the chief men of the Party then in town, they seemed all very anxious about the Prince's situation, and desirous that he should have some body with him, in whom they could confide; and proposed my going over. As this was a thing upon which they were very intent, I assured them, that there was nothing in my power that I would not do to forward the interest of the whole, but did not see how it was possible for me to undertake it, as I was not able to support myself with credit...
Page 105 - Gascon halted with my boots in one hand and a jug of hot water in the other, to hearken smilingly, his head on one side—"Aha! there it is again. The Langevol people are starting after the boars!
Page 23 - The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day; Now spur? the late traveler apace To gain the timely inn . . . These lines of the "First Murderer...
Page 36 - He stopped suddenly: the two folds of a door at the farther end of the room were thrown open; and the majordomo's voice purred in richly with the announcement: "Monsieur le comte's supper is served.
Page 391 - Comte will not be satisfied until he has seen, with his own eyes, that it is you who have come to his house, and not"—he hesitated—• "and not that other one, so long expected!