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At the summit of the hill, at the carrefour of la Maison-Rouge, the road from Donchery to Vrigne-aux-Bois debouched into the Mezieres pike. "See, that is the road by which we might retreat on Mezieres." Even as he spoke the first gun was fired from Saint-Menges.
After having vaulted three thousand metres of sewer in all quarters of the city, from the Rue Traversiere-Saint-Antoine to the Rue de l'Ourcine, after having freed the Carrefour Censier-Mouffetard from inundations of rain by means of the branch of the Arbalete, after having built the Saint-Georges sewer, on rock and concrete in the fluid sands, after having directed the formidable lowering of the flooring of the vault timber in the Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth branch, Duleau the engineer died.
The site is, in one point at least, admirably well-chosen, a kind of carrefour where four valleys and as many roads meet; and thus it commands the mouths of all the gorges leading inland. Riding up to the fort, we were welcomed by its commandant, Lieutenant Nasir Ahmed, a peculiarly good specimen of his arm, the infantry.
"Oh," she murmured, "I never saw one before except in pictures." "They belong in the snow they have no business here," said Jack; "they always make me think of those pictures of Russia the retreat of the Grand Army, you know." "Wolves and ravens," said Lorraine, in a low voice; "I know why they come to us here in France Monsieur Marche, did I not tell you that day in the carrefour?"
"Wolves?" she repeated, horrified. "I saw one; I followed it to this carrefour." She leaned against a tree; her hands fell to her sides. There was a silence; then she said, "You will not believe what I am going to say you will call it superstition perhaps stupidity. But do you know that wolves have never appeared along the Moselle except before a battle?
It went down the Rue Grand-Pont, crossed the Place des Arts, the Quai Napoleon, the Pont Neuf, and stopped short before the statue of Pierre Corneille. "Go on," cried a voice that came from within. The cab went on again, and as soon as it reached the Carrefour Lafayette, set off down-hill, and entered the station at a gallop. "No, straight on!" cried the same voice.
With this force, amounting in all to about seventeen thousand men, Lee proceeded to take position behind the works extending along the White-Oak Road, in the direction of Five Forks, an important carrefour beyond his extreme right. The number of men left north of James River and in front of Petersburg was a little under twenty thousand.
The voices came nearer; two people were approaching the carrefour. Jack Marche, angry and dirty, looked through the bushes, stanching a long scratch on his wrist with his pocket-handkerchief. The people were in sight now a man, tall, square-shouldered, striding swiftly through the woods, followed by a young girl.
"Meg, I rather like young men with rippled hair," said Miss Hennie Penny, as they passed the Carrefour and strolled between the dewy hedges towards La Tour, with larks by the dozen bursting their hearts in the freshness of the morning above them. "Do you, dear? I thought you scorned young men?" "As a class, yes! Especially the Cambridge variety. But not in particular.
Do you know the peasant girl who has taken off her clothes to bathe in a forest pool, her sheep wandering through the wood? By God! I should like you to see that picture. At the corner of the carrefour, the serpent catcher showed them two vipers in a low flat box.
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