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Gray rolled his neck in his white cravat, crossed his legs, and shook his black-gaitered shoe, and beamed, and smiled, and blew his nose, and hum'd, and ha'd, and said, "Ah, yes!" "Ah, indeed?" "Quite so!" and held his tongue. Mr. Savory Gray minded his own business; but his business did not mind him.
He sat where the highest pebble layers of the beach reached up to a little cliff of sandy earth perhaps a foot high, and he looked upon sands and sea and sky and saw that they were beautiful. He was a little black-gaitered object in a scene of the most exquisite and delicate colour.
"Ah, oui, mon General!" panted the Corporal. "Francois! Albert!" Two men sprang away from the rest and raced to intercept the boys. What a pace they ran! Their black-gaitered legs seemed to skim the ground. The boy had not allowed for such speed. "Toi de l'autre cote de la chaumiere. Moi ici!" called the swifter of the two. He flashed behind the cottage, and flashed up again round the gable- end.
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