She would be sent to boarding school, not in the States but to some bleak Catholic pensionnat near the Belgian border, like Cécile Matthews who had been caught shoplifting, or Amande Liebeskind, who, it was rumored, had gotten pregnant. ❋ Megan McAndrew (2009)
I was chagrined or downcast by the contrast which the reality of a pensionnat de demoiselles presented to my vague ideal of the same community; I was only enlightened and amused; consequently, I felt in no disposition to complain to Mdlle. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The establishment was both a pensionnat and an externat: the externes or day-pupils exceeded one hundred in number; the boarders were about a score. ❋ Unknown (2003)
With quick walking I regained the pensionnat just at dark, and in time for dinner. ❋ Unknown (2003)
I felt sure now that I was in the pensionnat — sure by the beating rain on the casement; sure by the “wuther” of wind amongst trees, denoting a garden outside; sure by the chill, the whiteness, the solitude, amidst which I lay. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Gaining the Rue Fossette, reaching the pensionnat, all there was still; no fiacre had yet arrived with Madame and Désirée. ❋ Unknown (2003)
I could only think of the pensionnat in the Rue Fossette. ❋ Unknown (2003)
My externat became a pensionnat; that also prospered. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Alfred can climb as well as he can dance or fence: his amusement was to make the escalade of our pensionnat by mounting, first the wall; then — by the aid of that high tree overspreading the grand berceau, and resting some of its boughs on the roof of the lower buildings of our premises — he managed to scale the first classe and the grand salle. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Your wanderings had taken an opposite direction to the pensionnat. ❋ Unknown (2003)
“Not” (with animation), “not at the pensionnat of Madame Beck?” ❋ Unknown (2003)
In another hour all the dwelling-house, and all the pensionnat, were dark and hushed. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Here, however, in this land of convents and confessionals, such a presence as his was not to be suffered with impunity in a “pensionnat de demoiselles.” ❋ Unknown (2003)
I believe if I had spoken French she would not have admitted me; but, as I spoke English, she concluded I was a foreign teacher come on business connected with the pensionnat, and, even at that late hour, she let me in, without a word of reluctance, or a moment of hesitation. ❋ Unknown (2003)
I feel quite sure that without this “cachemire” she would not have kept her footing in the pensionnat for two days: by virtue of it, and it only, she maintained the same a month. ❋ Unknown (2003)
When we reached the carré, a large square hall between the dwelling-house and the pensionnat, she paused, dropped my hand, faced, and scrutinized me. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Yet three days, and then I must go back to the pensionnat. ❋ Unknown (2003)
A girl of Villette stands there — a girl fresh from her pensionnat. ❋ Unknown (2003)
