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And also to Monique and Michel Marrot at La Pomme Bleue at Rennes-le-Château, whose meals often made our day.

The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004

And also to Monique and Michel Marrot at La Pomme Bleue at Rennes-le-Château, whose meals often made our day.

The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004

The remainder of the sentence was drowned by the night express which rushed past, joining baby Marrot in a yell, as the latter freed his throat from his mother's grip.

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Emma Lee, to pay Mrs John Marrot a friendly visit, ostensibly for the purpose of inquiring after the health of baby Marrot, who, having recently fallen down-stairs, swallowed a brass button and eaten an unknown quantity of shoe-blacking, had been somewhat ailing.

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Marrot was there also -- as strapping a young blade as one could wish to see, with a modest yet fearless look in his eye, that was quite in keeping with his occupation as driver of the "Flying Dutchman."

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Marrot to be seized with such a fit of choking that the baby (not the new one, but the old) found it as hard work to beat her out of it, as she had formerly found it to beat _him_ out of a fit of wickedness.

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Whenever Mrs Marrot said anything with unusual emphasis, baby Marrot entertained the unalterable conviction that he was being scolded; no sooner, therefore, did he observe the well-known look, and hear the familiar tones, than he opened wide his mouth and howled with injured feeling.

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And Nanny Stocks was there, with "the baby," but _not_ the baby Marrot!

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"Oh no, Mrs Tipps, not by no means," said Marrot, hasting to relieve the timid old lady's feelings, "Mr Joseph is all right -- nothing wotiver wrong with him -- nor likely to be, ma'am.

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"Well, it _was_ a raither coorious kind o 'proposal," said Marrot with a smile, "but it worked uncommon well.

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