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Count Grammont, who was standing behind me, leaned forward and whispered, "Your cousin, baron?" "Yes, count," I answered. "Mon Dieu!" he returned, shrugging his shoulders. "You will soon be a duke. We may not call her the queen of hearts, for already we have one, but surely she is the duchess of hearts. I wish I might present her in Paris. Ah Dieu! She would make quickly my peace with my king!"
All the same, it would have saved much trouble." "What's to be done with him?" "He may be dead Mon Dieu! I keep forgetting. If he's alive you will take him away in my boat " "Where to?" "You want him to live?" "I don't want to have killed him." "Then you must get him to a doctor. You can't go to Guernsey, so that means Jersey And afterwards I don't know you'll have to see what is best.
It was my discovery there which led to the forced marriage, and our being sent with this expedition." "You heard alone?" "So they thought, and naturally believed marriage would prevent my ever bearing witness against them. But I was not alone." "Mon Dieu! Another heard?" "Yes, the Sieur de Artigny."
It is the good God that makes crops good or bad, and it is the good God that makes men say, 'C'est le bon Dieu. The good God makes the philosophy. It is all one." She appeared to grow agitated, and her voice shook as she spoke. "Tsh, it is only a fool that says the good God does it, when the thing that is done breaks you or that which you love all to pieces.
She sighed and wondered whether she would like it, after all. "Here in England I can say 'damn' as often as I choose. I don't say it very often, but sometimes I feel I must say it or explode." "There are its equivalents in French," I suggested. She laughed outright. "Fancy my coming out with a sacre nom de Dieu in a French drawing-room!" "Fancy you shouting 'damn' in an English one."
"One sees that you want some one to take care of you. And this cabin oh! mon Dieu! how bare and uncomfortable! I suppose men have to go to sea alone because they can persuade no woman to go with them." She pounced upon her father again, and arranged afresh the cushions behind his back, with a little air of patronage and protection.
Grant me a few months so that the old Julia may be forgotten, and I may forget her myself you will; say, won't you?" "Anything you please," said Clotilde, with a sigh. "I beg of you. Tell him that I beg of him, too." "I'll tell him; but do you know that Pierre is here?" "Ah! mon Dieu! and where did you leave him?" "I left him in the garden."
Call in on Sweeney on the way, buy an extra box of cartridges, and say 'Dieu et mon Droit' it is our password; he will understand, but, if he shouldn't, explain, in your own way, that you come from me, and that we rely upon him to look out for our interest.
Ferney pleaded in his defence that these traitors had been spirited away from under his very nose by the devil's agency, for surely that meddlesome Englishman who spent his time in rescuing aristocrats traitors, all of them from the clutches of Madame la Guillotine must be either the devil himself, or at any rate one of his most powerful agents. "Nom de Dieu! just think of his name!
"Mort de Dieu!" cried La Hire, forgetting in his wonder the loyally kept promise to swear only by his baton, "but the Maid has nothing to learn in the art of gunnery! Where hath she learnt such skill, such wisdom! We never had guns to place at Orleans! Where has the child seen warfare, that she places her artillery with the skill of a tried general of forces!"
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