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"Mon Dieu!" interrupted the little fair-haired gentleman, "there is no need of any such complicated affair. Let me merely see a finger cut with a penknife, let me see it dipped in the water, and let it come out with the cut cicatrised. The miracle will be quite as great, and I shall bow to it respectfully."
With great caution, the horses of the King and his suite passed across the marsh, and with infinite astonishment their riders saw on the ramparts the two red companies in battle array as on parade. "Vive Dieu!" cried Louis; "I think that not one of them is missing! Well, Marquis, you keep your word you take walls on horseback."
Then they take the bodies and wound them round some casks in a great hole, and cover it all up. I understan'. It is the old legend that a dead body will keep gold all to itself, so that no one shall find it. Mon Dieu!" his voice dropped low and shook in his throat "I give one little cry at the sight, and then they see me. There were three. They were armed; they sprang upon me and tied me.
The man cast a quick and sly glance at her, then stared once more into the bag. "Ah! Mon Dieu! Ah! Mon Dieu!" he repeated. "The life to come the life of Madame I see it in the bag!" His face looked tortured. Domini walked on hurriedly. When she had got to a little distance she glanced back. The man was standing in the middle of the road and glaring into the bag.
"But you, messieurs, you whom I think it an honor to call my friends, since you have been willing to accept that title, what will become of you in the meantime?" replied the officer, very much agitated at taking leave of the two ancient adversaries of his father. "We will wait here." "But, mon Dieu! the order is precise and formal."
"Eight? mon Dieu, Monsieur, how you are generous! I shall keep for you all the first row." "Oblige me by doing nothing of the kind," said my father, very decisively. "It would displease me extremely." The Chevalier counted out the eight little pink cards, and ranged them in a row beside my father's desk.
I thought till now I have thought that I was more able to read the truth than most men. You must often have laughed how you must have laughed secretly at my pretensions. Only once one night in the garden on the island I think I saw you laughing. And even then I didn't understand. Mon Dieu!" He was becoming fiercely concentrated now on what he was saying. He was losing all self-consciousness.
At present they have a great fear of the British. They lie awake; they listen; they expect to be carried off; they hear a sound in the night, and, mon Dieu! it is the soldiers coming." The count laughed, lifting his shoulders with a gesture of both hands. Then he puffed thoughtfully at his cigarette. "Indeed," he went on presently, "I think the invasion is not far away.
The Australian girl sat quiet, as did the Englishman who had been there before; the Italian ejaculated "Per dio," and the Frenchman "Mon Dieu," as the widow, pulling one side of her veil across her face, hid her over-crimson mouth, but in no way impeded her view, whilst Jill looked round hastily for a way of escape, but suddenly remembering the certain peril in the street decided, as she edged as far as possible from the marchese, to sit out the difficulties of the moment.
"Very bad." "Oh, mon Dieu! what is the matter?" "Something annoys me infinitely." "Something! And are you not powerful enough to get rid of it?" "It is not something, but some one, that M. Quelus means," said Maugiron, advancing. "And whom I advise him to get rid of," said Schomberg, coming forward on the other side. "Ah, M. de Schomberg! I did not recognize you."
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