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As for the officer, he gripped each one by the hand and shook it warmly. "It's an example to us all, mes enfants," he told the squad. "There is great honour to our big friend here who has seen such fighting throughout the first days of the war, the Retreat, that Battle of the Marne where we smashed the crowing German, the conflict near Arras and round Ypres, which barred the progress of our enemy.
"Courage, mes enfants, for the house has gone mad," they said. "We will commence anyhow, let what will happen." "I'm afraid I shall faint," I said to Duquesnel. My hands were as cold as ice, and my heart was beating wildly. "What am I to do," I asked him, "if I get too frightened?" "There's nothing to be done," he replied. "Be frightened, but go on playing, and don't faint upon any account!"
"Leve, leve, leve!" he cried, "leve, leve, mes enfants!" Some of Louis's infants replied to the summons in a way that would have done credit to a harlequin.
Jerome to superintend their lessons?" "Oh, I think he would do excellently, my friend," said Grandmamma in a mollified tone, "He is at least a tutor comme il faut, and knows how to instruct des enfants de bonne maison. He is not a mere 'Uncle' who is good only for taking them out walking." "Very well; I will talk to him to-morrow," said Papa.
The bird twisted his head round, as though giving earnest attention to what was said; then, after a moment, which from his wise look seemed to be occupied in profoundly considering the reasonableness of the request, he burst forth with "Allons enfants de la Patrie Le jour de gloire est arrivee!" Shrieking out the two lines as though they composed a single word.
"Mon Dieu!" cried Madame in horror. "Is the child dead?" "No, no! " and Martine again tossed her arms aloft in a kind of frenzy. "No but look you! there IS a God! Yes! we thought He was an invention of the priests but no He is a real God after all! Oh mes enfants!" and she tried to grasp the amazed Henri and Babette in her arms, "You are two of His angels! you took my boy to the Cardinal "
It was an official certificate, given by the Administration des Enfants Assistes in the Department of the Seine. On the first page, under a medallion containing a likeness of Saint Vincent de Paul, were the printed prescribed forms. For the family name, a simple black line filled the allotted space.
"May you live to see it," quoth the bowman. "And hark ye, mes enfants, take an old soldier's rede and lay your bodies to the bow, drawing from hip and thigh as much as from arm.
I heard it with my own ears, and one must hear much before one's ears fall off. There is one among the fowls who has so completely forgotten what is becoming conduct in a hen that she pulls out all her feathers, while the cock sits looking at her." "Prenez garde aux enfants," said the Father-Owl. "That's not a story for the children to hear."
Frank and Arab were blent in one inextricable mass as the charging squadrons encountered. The outer wings of the tribes were spared the shock, and swept on to meet the bayonets of Zouaves and Turcos as, at their swift foot-gallop, the Enfants Perdus of France threw themselves forward from the darkness.
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