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"Off with his head!" exclaimed Wedderburn, who at the same instant reached the spot. The bloody mandate was readily obeyed; and Home, taking the bleeding head in his hand, cut off the flaxen tresses, and tied them as a trophy to his saddle-bow. The body of the Chevalier de la Beauté was rudely buried on the spot where he fell.
"At present," he remarked, "as the subject is somewhat exhausted, I shall turn my attention to setting our prisoners against one another. The little encounter may give us some useful facts." The little encounter broke the prisoner's heart, and deprived her of the only consoling thought so many misfortunes had left her. "Le Chevalier is the adored one."
I must not forget to mention here my last interview with my good uncle, the Chevalier de Ballybarry, whom I left at Brussels with strong intentions of making his salut, as the phrase is, and who had gone into retirement at a convent there.
Help yourself to this paroquet, my son," said the priest to the chevalier, who appeared to find the fish very much to his taste. Croustillac hesitated a moment and looked at the priest in an uncertain manner. "I do not know why, but it seems strange to eat a paroquet," said the chevalier. "Try it, try it," responded the priest, and he placed a wing on his plate.
"This gentleman," continued he, presenting the stranger, "is the chevalier Feathertop nay, I beg his pardon, My Lord Feathertop who hath brought me a token of remembrance from an ancient friend of mine. Pay your duty to His Lordship, child, and honor him as his quality deserves." After these few words of introduction the worshipful magistrate immediately quitted the room.
I never look at Thisbe but what I see the hands of Madame l'Amirale." "Did you see Madame de Rochefide?" asked Calyste. "No," replied the chevalier. "It is sixty-eight years since I have looked at any woman with attention except your mother, who has something of Madame l'Amirale's complexion." Three days later, the chevalier said to Calyste, on the mall,
He travels always in style, accompanied by two mistresses and four servants. He is a chevalier of the Legion of Honour. He will, however, have some difficulty to make a great profit by his calculations in Germany, as many of the generals are better acquainted than he with the country, where their extortions and dilapidations have been felt and lamented for these ten years past.
"Here is an excellent opportunity to produce my sonnet," said the Gascon to himself. "If I dared, madame, I would recite some little verses which might, perhaps, interest you." "Verses how? are you a poet, chevalier?" "All lovers are, madame." "That is an admission you are in love, in order to be entitled to be a poet?" "No, madame," said Croustillac sadly. "I am in love by right of suffering."
She decided to visit Henriette, if only to divert her from the seemingly mad project of a union with the Chevalier. Meantime Count Linieres had decided to exercise the power of the dread lettres de cachet. In the France of that day, personal rights were unknown.
The light of the torches shone on the rich armor of the chevalier and on the gold-embroidered housing of his horse, and it seemed as if its brilliancy must open his closed eyes and re-animate his motionless limbs. Erard kept close to his grandfather and a little behind him. He wept gently, but not with fear it was with grief and sorrow, and he repeated, in a low voice, "They have killed him!
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