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Examples

  • This was l'Abbe Foucquet! the faithful friend and servant of the de Marny family.

    The Elusive Pimpernel Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

  • It had never occurred to her what she would do if she found the Abbe Foucquet gone from Boulogne.

    The Elusive Pimpernel Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

  • But when he had gone, she turned with a sudden passionate outburst towards the Abbe Foucquet, her faithful companion through the past long, weary hours.

    The Elusive Pimpernel Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

  • I think a little sea voyage and English country air would suit the Abbe Foucquet, m'dear, and

    The Elusive Pimpernel Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

  • Foucquet was sitting in the remote and darkest corner of the room, quietly telling his beads.

    The Elusive Pimpernel Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

  • The Abbe Foucquet did not quite understand all this, which was very rapidly and roughly explained to him.

    The Elusive Pimpernel Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

  • Silently the party embarked, and as the boats pushed off and the sailors from Sir Percy's yacht bent to their oars, the old Abbe Foucquet began gently droning a Pater and Ave to the accompaniment of his beads.

    The Elusive Pimpernel Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

  • Quick as a hunted panther, he had interposed his tall figure between his enemy and the latter's chance of calling for aid, then, seizing the little man by the shoulders, he pushed him back into that portion of the room where Marguerite and the Abbe Foucquet had been lately sitting.

    The Elusive Pimpernel Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

  • Philip Glynde, who had met the Abbe Foucquet outside his little church and escorted him safely out of the city, whilst Francois and Felicite with their old mother had been under the charge of other members of the

    The Elusive Pimpernel Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

  • Foucquet, for he would prove a link 'twixt her husband and herself.

    The Elusive Pimpernel Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

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