This little creature had had a certain amount of education and could play the piano and talk English.

She was a blonde on a tiny, pretty scale and so delicately formed that she seemed to bend under Bordenave's rude weight.

Yet she was smilingly submissive withal.

He postured there for some moments, for he felt that together they formed a tableau.
"One can't help liking ye, eh ?" he continued.

"Zounds, I was afraid I should get bored, and I said to myself, 'Here goes.'" But he interrupted himself with an oath.
"Oh, damn!" Simonne had taken a step too quickly forward, and his foot had just felt his full weight.