"Elle est demoiselle," returned Eve.

"Ci-git Margot la genre demoiselle, Qui eut deux maris, et si mourut pucelle.

Didst thou not observe, for instance, in all that touches feminine grace and perfection, the manifest difference between the daughter of Melchior de Willading and the daughter of this Balthazar?" "There was the difference between a maiden of most honored and happy extraction and a maiden most miserably condemned!" "Nay, the Demoiselle de Willading is the fairer.

he said, jerking his thumb in the direction of upstairs, "La demoiselle dans la chambre de Monsieur." "Mais que dites vous mon brave homme!"

la petite demoiselle blonde, dans la chambre de Monsieur le Comte de Tournelle.

I don't know what it all meant, but the Comtesse de Tournelle is now called "la demoiselle!"

They all kissed me on both cheeks, and even Hippolyte as he put us into the carriage after I tipped him, remarked, "Mieux vaut épouser un français et rester toujours chez nous, vous êtes trop belle demoiselle pour le brouillard d'Angleterre!

When, therefore, the demoiselle came in her turn, the King's household stood upon their feet to give her greeting.

As they came from a tournament on a day, the Count and my lord Thibault together, the Count required of his companion and said, "Thibault, by the aid of God tell me truly which jewel of my crown shines the fairest in your eyes!" "Sir," replied Messire Thibault, "I am only a beggar, but so help me God, of all the jewels in your crown I love and covet none, save only my demoiselle, your daughter.

LA GRANDE DEMOISELLE

As for la grande demoiselle, she had prepared for her own oblivion in the hearts of her female friends.

La grande demoiselle!

He went and married la grande demoiselle.

When she passes her old plantation la grande demoiselle always lifts her veil for one instantthe inevitable green barege veil.

" Says Captain Mundy (II., 222): "No aristocratic youth dare venture to pay his addresses to a Dyak demoiselle unless he throws at the blushing maiden's feet a netful of skulls!

The part of Lizette was taken by Demoiselle Willmann.

"What is it you require, ma chère demoiselle?" asked Madame Marotte.

Honoria, who had not yet succeeded in uttering a syllable of her part, took no pains to dissemble her annoyance; and was only pacified at last by a happy proposal on the part of Monsieur Philomène, who suggested that "this gifted demoiselle" should be entreated to favor the society with a soliloquy.

his two official predecessors, in several of the lawless proceedings of the American Buccaneers: "Be vigilant, or la demoiselle Barbérie will give another cross to the purity of the stagnant pool!"

The decision, with which la demoiselle Barbérie had dismissed her suitor, was owing to some consciousness that she had need of opportunity to reflect on the singular nature of the events which had just happened, no less than to a sense of the impropriety of his visiting her at that hour, and in a manner so equivocal.

" "Your discipline would deprive many a beauty of the means of using her power," returned la demoiselle, smiling, as much at the folly of her recent fears, as with affection for her reprover.

I think we may be satisfied that the demoiselle's imagination was excited so as to evoke a phantom impressed on her mind by a previous scene of terror.

Who would have imagined it in cette demoiselle si sage!

Then did Miss Clifford's French maid trip forward smirking with a parasol to mend: Désolée de vous déranger, Monsieur Hope, mais notre demoiselle est au désespoir: oh, ces parasols Anglais!

Cette demoiselle m'adore, elle m'idolâtre...