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He would answer no questions concerning Juste Duvarney, or Voban, or Monsieur Doltaire, nor tell me anything of what was forward in the town. He had had his orders precise enough, he said. The cosiest nest in the world aho!" There was no coaxing him, and at last I desisted. I had no light.
He is now of the Governor's body-guard, and I think is by no means happy, and would prefer service with the Marquis de Montcalm, who goes not comfortably with the Intendant and the Governor. One day Gabord came to our house on the ramparts, and, asking for me, blundered out, "Aho, what shall a soldier do with sables? They are for gentles and for wrens to snuggle in.
And then I read him that part of her postscript which had to do with himself. He put his head on one side like a great wise magpie, and "H'm ha!" said he whimsically, "aho! Gabord the soldier, Gabord, thou hast a good heart and the birds fed the beast with plums and froth of comfits till he died, and on his sugar tombstone they carved the words, 'Gabord had a good heart."
Before to-night she never spoke of him before the world but a poor daft thing, going about all sad and wild. She missed her chance to-night aho!" "Why are you not with Montcalm's soldiers?" I asked. "You like him better." "I was with him, but my time was out, and I left him for Bigot. Pish! I left him for Bigot, for the militia!" He raised his thumb to his nose, and spread out his fingers.
But in a little time we shall run out of the portholes as the water runs along the oarblade, and though you tell the others to row after us you will never catch us till you catch the oar-thresh and tie up the winds in the belly of the sail. Aho! Will you never let us go?" "H'm. What's oar-thresh, Charlie?" "The water washed up by the oars.
I turn the corner of the barn and come upon a great devil of a Wurtemberger, who was tugging at the beam with a certain enthusiasm. 'Aho! aho! I shouted, trying to make him understand that he must desist from his toil. 'Gehe mir aus dem Gesicht, oder ich schlag dich todt! Get out of my sight, or I will kill you, he cried.
Clambering out on the end of the jib-boom, Upaparu seized hold of a stay and hailed them in a semi-Tahitian dialect, the lingua franca of Eastern Polynesia "Ia ora na kotore teie nei aho!"
At last I was roused by Gabord's voice. He sat down, and drew the leaves of faded corn between his fingers. "'Tis a poor life, this in a cage, after all eh, dickey-bird? If a soldier can't stand in the field fighting, if a man can't rub shoulders with man, and pitch a tent of his own somewhere, why not go travelling with the Beast aho? To have all the life sucked out like these eh?
Besides, he was a true soldier, and disgrace itself would be to him as bad as the drum-head court-martial. I made up my mind to another course even as the perturbed "aho" which followed our glance fell from his puffing lips. "But no, holy Mother," said I, and I whispered in her ear. She opened the door and went in, leaving it ajar.
So forth I come; and I must be at my post again by morn, said the General." "It is now nine o'clock, and she will be in the convent," said the woman tentatively. "Aho!" he answered, "and none can enter there but Governor, if holy Mother say no. So now goes Master Devil there? 'Gabord, quoth he, 'you shall come with me to the convent at ten o'clock, bringing three stout soldiers of the garrison.