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This was an officer of a chasseur regiment, who had the reputation of being the best swordsman in the whole French army, and was no less distinguished for his "skill at fence," than his uncompromising hatred of the British, with whom alone, of all the allied forces, he was ever known to come in contact.
Your Corporal will demoralize the army of Africa, monsieur!" "He shall have an ounce of cold lead before he does. What in?" "He will demoralize it," said Cigarette, with a sagacious shake of her head. "If they follow his example we shan't have a Chasseur, or a Spahi, or a Piou-piou, or a Sapeur worth anything " "Sacre! What does he do?"
'You will release the thirty-seven dragoons if I free your leader? 'We will give you ten of them. 'Up with him! I cried. 'Twenty, shouted the chasseur. 'No more words, said I. 'Pull on the rope! 'All of them, cried the envoy, as the cord tightened round the Marshal's neck. 'With horses and arms? They could see that I was not a man to jest with. 'All complete, said the chasseur, sulkily.
She was the one woman for whom he had always sought, alluring, soothing, maddening; if need be, to be fought for; the one thing to be desired. Opposite, across the table, her husband, the ex-wrestler, chasseur d'Afrique, elephant poacher, bulked large as an ox. Men felt as well as saw his bigness. Captain Hardy deferred to him on matters of trade.
"Georges, mon brave," said the Little One, with that accent of authority which was as haughty as any General's, "do you know how that Chasseur is that we brought in last night?" "Not heard, ma belle," said the cheery little Tringlo, who was hard pressed; for there was much to be done, and he was very busy. "What is to be done with the wounded?" Georges lifted his eyebrows. "Ma belle!
Saunderson, had indued a pair of jack-boots of large dimensions, and now invited our hero to follow him as he stalked clattering down the ample staircase, tapping each huge balustrade as he passed with the butt of his massive horsewhip, and humming, with the air of a chasseur of Louis Quatorze, Pour la chasse ordonnee il faut preparer tout, Hola ho! Vite! vite debout.
Angelo struck his foot heavily on the stairs; the innkeeper coughed and ran back, bowing to his guest. The chasseur cried, 'I 'll drink farther on-wine between gaps! A coin chinked on the steps in accompaniment to the chasseur's departing gallop. 'Beast of a Tedesco, the landlord exclaimed as he picked up the money; 'they do the reckoning not we.
Saunderson, had indued a pair of jack-boots of large dimensions, and now invited our hero to follow him as he stalked clattering down the ample stair-case, tapping each huge balustrade as he passed with the butt of his massive horse-whip, and humming, with the air of a chasseur of Louis Quatorze, Pour la chasse ordonnee il faut preparer tout. Ho la ho! Vite! vite debout!
It revolted the chasseur d'Afrique, the idea of killing a man that way, three against one, but when his brother arrived, accompanied by his faithful myrmidons, the disgust he felt for the villainous crew was lost in his detestation of the Prussians; sure he wasn't going to put himself out to save one of the dirty hounds, even if they did do him up in a way that was not according to rule; and he settled matters with his conscience by going to bed and burying his head under the blankets, that he might hear nothing that would tempt him to act in accordance with his soldierly instincts.
As the pasha is unable to attend the ball, I have to bring his letter of excuse, and now I must really go on my way." Coucou pretended not to hear these last words. He gazed at a group of men who sat at a side table, and whispered to Galoret: "Look at those fools. How they stare at you. One would think they had never seen a Chasseur d'Afrique."
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