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Usage examples of leotard.

Madame Leotard very attentively, as if she had actually begun understanding something for the first time and saw the justice of her reasoning.

I replied, always apprehensive for both myself and Katya when Madame Leotard scolded her.

Madame Leotard was teaching her French, and her instruction consisted of going over the grammar in selections from La Fontaine.

Only after completely exhausting herself, and then as a last resort, would she go to Madame Leotard and ask her help with some problem she had not succeeded in solving herself.

I was at last able to study, Madame Leotard tested me to see how much I knew, and finding that I read very well but wrote very poorly, considered it absolutely imperative to start teaching me French.

As luck would have it, Katya was exceedingly dull-witted and bemused that day, so much so that Madame Leotard was incredulous.

I, on the other hand, eager to please Madame Leotard with my diligence, had learned the whole French alphabet before the lesson was over.

Madame Leotard, who had been observing us and listening to our conversation for the last five minutes.

Waking at night I could hear her arguing with Madame Leotard in her sleep.

Madame Leotard began to wonder about Katya and to question her as to why she was so quiet, and whether she felt ill.

Katya made some reply and was about to take up her shuttlecock, but had no sooner turned away from Madame Leotard than her face flushed and she began to cry.

Her mother consulted doctors and sent for Madame Leotard daily to question her in minute detail about her daughter, and orders were given to watch her constantly.

Madame Leotard screamed in horror, but by then he had reached the sacrosanct door, and, setting upon it with his front paws, howled as if he were being slaughtered.

At last the door was opened and Madame Leotard, with tears in her eyes, took me in her arms and begged me to forgive her for having forgotten me.

When she woke up, she had raised a great clamor and commotion to set me free, waking up the nurse, the maids, and Madame Leotard, who had by then returned.