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Falling personally into the Rhine, and sinking, he got pinched, he Denys, to his surprise and satisfaction. "Oho!" thought he, and on the principle of the anatomists, "experimentum in corpore vili," kept himself a quarter of an hour under water; under pressure all the time.
Even while saying this, Denys had whipped a piece of string round the dead man's neck, and tied him to the chair, and there the ghastly figure sat fronting the door. "Denys, I can do better. Saints forgive me!" "What? Be quick then, we have not many moments."
Gerard put his fingers into his ears; but presently he saw in Denys's face a horror that contrasted strangely with this sudden merriment. "What ails thee?" said he, sitting up and staring. "Hush!" said Denys, and his hand spoke even more plainly than his lips. "Listen to me."
"She will not let it out of her hand neither to me nor you, nor any he or she that lives." "I knew she would not," said Cornelis. "Whisht! whisht!" said Eli, "and let Denys tell his story." "'Nay, said I, 'but be ruled by me. 'Not I, quoth she.
Denys louted low; the worshipful lady nodded graciously, but rapidly, having business on hand, or rather on foot; for in a moment she poked the point of her little shoe into the sleeper, and worked it round in him like a gimlet, till with a long snarl he woke. The incarnate shutter rising and grumbling vaguely, the lady swept in and deigned him no further notice.
He turned sharply, and took her extended hand with elaborate courtesy. "Good-bye, Mrs. Denys!" he said. "I'll come down and see you off," cried Gracie, attaching herself to his free arm. "Ah! Wait a bit!" said Piers. "I haven't said good-bye to the Queen of the fairies yet." He dropped upon one knee by Jeanie's sofa. Her arm slid round his neck. "When will you come again?" she whispered.
It was eleven o'clock, an unheard-of hour, but they took no note of time this night; and Denys had still much to tell them, when the door was opened quietly, and in stole Cornelis and Sybrandt looking hang-dog. They had this night been drinking the very last drop of their mysterious funds.
Here the wheel is common, and the fiery stake; and under this king they drown men by the score in Paris river, Seine yclept. But the English are as peremptory in hanging and drowning for a light fault; so travellers report. Finally, a true-hearted Frenchman, when ye chance on one, is a man as near perfect as earth affords; and such a man is my Denys, spite of his foul mouth." Denys.
Denys, shared the same fate, and when the present priory was built, my father, who had brought his English wife from the convent of the Holy Trinity at Caen, where she received her education, restored the old dedication, as I imagine to give her pleasure." "Thy father, thou sayest, is with thee in this land?" "He has gone forward with the host to the siege of the Holy City.
The story of the taking of Fort la Tour, as told by Nicholas Denys, is well known. For three days Madame la Tour bravely repelled the besiegers and obliged them to retire beyond the reach of her guns.
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