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His earthy colour his features, at once vulgar and imposing, presented the true expression of the canaille. He had dark pimples spread over his face like patches of dirt, and his eyes beamed with a repulsive light. His countenance was more horrid, perhaps, than it might otherwise have been, from his head being snow-white with powder.
"For myself," he said, "I am a Frenchman, and I should scorn to ask for money for running a risk of being shot by a canaille of a German, but think of my horse;" and then he patted the faithful steed, whom I may possibly have the pleasure to meet again, served up in a sauce piquante.
'Our enemies, Voltaire had said, 'have always on their side the fat of the land, the sword, the strong box, and the canaille. For a moment all these forces were on the other side, and it is deplorable to think that they were as much abused by their new masters as by the old.
Now come in with me and say good-bye to your mother and sisters. The sooner you are out of this house the better, for there is no saying at what hour the agents of the canaille may present themselves." The parting was a sad one indeed, but it was over at last, and Monsieur du Tillet hurried the two boys away as soon as their father returned with them.
Upon the whole, they were well disposed to one another; the bond of intelligence united them against the rich "roughs" with whom they had to deal; they tilted together, side by side, against the canaille; yet each, from the bitter consciousness of his own degradation, took pleasure in the humiliation or discomfiture of the other, at the rude hands of their common master.
Come, Suzanne," he said, turning abruptly to his daughter, "Enough of this delightful morning have we already wasted on this canaille." With that he offered her his wrist, and so, without so much as another glance at La Boulaye, she took her departure. The secretary remained where they had left him, pale of face saving the fortuitous crimson mark which the whip had cut and very sick at heart.
"There are acres of grain going to seed beyond us which he would rather lose than have me hunt over," the Baron confessed. "Bah! We shall see what the canaille will do, for only this morning he sent me word threatening to break up the hunt. Nothing would please him better than have us all served with a procès-verbal for trespassing."
All the salts and senna in Quebec have not sufficed to restore the digestion of my poor monks since you played that trick upon them down in your misnamed village of Beauport!" "Pardon, Reverend Father de Berey!" replied a smiling habitan, "it was not we, but the sacrilegious canaille of St. Anne who boiled the Easter eggs!
But you also forget that the Republic has abolished gentlemen, and with them, their disgraceful privileges." "Canaille!" growled the Vicomte, his eyes ablaze with wrath. "Citizen-aristocrat, consider your words!" La Boulaye had stepped close up to him, and his voice throbbed with a sudden anger no whit less compelling than Ombreval's.
"Lieutenant of Hussars, too I mean he's a general. A Gascon. Son of a blacksmith, I believe." "There! I thought so. That Bonaparte had a special predilection for the canaille. I don't mean this for you, D'Hubert. You are one of us, though you have served this usurper who..." "Let's leave him out of this," broke in General D'Hubert. The Chevalier shrugged his peaked shoulders. "A Feraud of sorts.
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