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Upon this she turned round, and looking fixedly at me for a second, called out in a thick pathos, "Ah, le bon Dieu! qu'il est drole comme ca, Francois, savez vous, mais ce n'est pas Francois;" saying which, she sprang from her kneeling position to her feet, and with a speed that her shape and sabots seemed little to promise, rushed down the stairs as if she had seen the devil himself.
"We are on our way from church, Monseigneur." "C'est ca," he murmured, as if to himself, and his eyes taking such stock of her as made Charlot burn to tear him from his horse. Then, in a kindly, fatherly voice, he added: "My felicitations, Marie; may you be a happy wife and a happier mother."
"But " he began hoarsely. "I said, the wench stays here!" broke in Merri peremptorily. "Ah ca!" he added, with a savage imprecation. "Do you command here, citizen Rateau, or do I?" The other at once became humble, even cringing. "You, of course, citizen," he rejoined in his hollow voice. "I would only remark " "Remark nothing," retorted the other curtly.
And, commencing at the beginning, I read aloud the words as they came, with pauses at the breaks, something as follows: "Mr. Hor Dear a niece whom yo one too who see the love and trus any other man ca autiful, so char s she in face fo conversation, ery rose has its rose is no exception ely as she is, char tender as she is, s pable of tramplin one who trusted heart . him to he owes a honor ance.
You go down a bit, past wheer th' water-man lives and then Somerset Drive, as they ca' it, branches off on 't right hand side an' there's nowt but three houses in it, no more than three, I believe, an' I'm a'most certain as theirs is th' last th' last o' th' three you see 'Thank you very much, said Gerald. 'Good-night. And he started off, leaving the tipsy man there standing rooted.
There was a silence, then: "Are ye sure o' that, Angus?" "Sure, Sergeant I was in Amiens for three months." Tam said nothing and presently began whistling softly. He walked to his book-shelf, took down a thin, paper-covered volume and sank back on the bed. "That will do, Angus," he said presently; "ca' me at five."
Michel," he inquired, "do you know how to pray?" "Sacred thousand swine, no!" cried the ancient gnome, in something between astonishment and horror. "No, Monsieur. 'Pas mon métier, ça!" He shook his head rapidly from side to side like one of those toys in a shop-window whose heads oscillate upon a pivot. But all at once a gleam of inspiration sparkled in his lone eye. "There is the old Justine!" he suggested. "Toujours sur les genoux, cette imbécile l
A half-dozen of those unsexed viragos produced by the Revolution, in filthy garments, red bonnets and streaming hair, were marching by to the raucous chorus of the "Ca ira!" He turned from the sight in disgust, and again faced his visitor. "Citoyenne," he said, in a composed voice, "I am afraid that your journey has been in vain." She rose now from her knees, and advanced towards him.
"Over your finger?" "Yes." "That's C." "C, a. And what does it spell?" "Did the stone fall right onto your foot?" "Yes partly on." "And was it broke right off?" "No. Oh, no. Only the bone of my ankle was broken." "It smarted some, I guess; didn't it?" "No. Now Hephzibah, what do those two letters spell?" "C, a, ca. That don't mean nothin'." " Now the next. D, a " "What's D, a?" "D, a, da."
"The snow is piling up fast and the bushes will be snowed under in another hour or two. We have got to reach the timber somehow. It's our only chance of safety." Again they struggled on, so out of breath and weak they could scarcely draw one snowshoe after the other. Giant fell down and had to be raised up. "I I am afraid I ca can't go another step!" he blurted out. "I am as we weak as a a cat!"
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