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Cocardasse had somehow or other managed to get between him and the door, and the other ruffians seemed to be entirely in sympathy with the Gascon's conduct, and to have no regard whatever for Peyrolles's dignity or feelings. With a smile that he intended to be amiable, Peyrolles sat down. "Well," he said, with an air of one that swallows sour wine, "what have you to say to me?"
The sentry, being a Gascon, incontinently twirled up his whiskers, and levell'd his arquebuss. Arquebusses in those days went off with matches; and an old woman's paper lantern at the end of the bridge happening to be blown out, she had borrow'd the sentry's match to light it: it gave a moment's time for the Gascon's blood to run cool, and turn the accident better to his advantage.
Accordingly it took place at Trachenberg, a castle north of Breslau, with the happiest results. The warmth of the great Gascon's manner cleared away all clouds, and won the approval of Frederick William.
The queen, although astonished at this language, to which she was not accustomed from her courtiers, argued from it a happy omen of the zeal with which D'Artagnan would serve her in the accomplishment of her project. It was one of the Gascon's artifices to hide his deep cunning occasionally under an appearance of rough loyalty. "Has the queen any further commands for me now?" asked D'Artagnan.
Accordingly it took place at Trachenberg, a castle north of Breslau, with the happiest results. The warmth of the great Gascon's manner cleared away all clouds, and won the approval of Frederick William.
The colonel, taking the Gascon's silence for despair, said to him, in a gentler tone, "I suppose your grace perceives with pain the future before you. There is enough occasion for it, it seems to me." "To be a prisoner always in the Tower of London?" "Yes, my lord; but you cannot enjoy much liberty here; perhaps this life of agony and continual unrest is not so much to be regretted?"
He coughed, looked at the man he had saved with a strange questioning, and collapsed. Grimshaw was sobered instantly. They say that he broke the Gascon's arm before the crowd could separate them. Then he knelt down by the dying Negro, turned him gently over and lifted him in his arms, supporting that ugly bullet head against his knee.
"Certain tales of you and your companions, Sir Squire," answered Clarenham, "do not dispose me to take a Gascon's word for more than it is worth." "This passes!" cried Gaston, striking his fist on the table; "you venture it because you are not of my degree!
On hearing this, Dick Taverner shouted "To the rescue! to the rescue!" and rushed into the house, followed by the 'prentices, who loudly echoed his cries. "Par ici, Messieurs! Par ici! this way, this way!" vociferated Cyprien, who met them in the passage "the bowling-alley there they are!" But the Gascon's directions were scarcely needed.
They were ignorant of the Gascon's intentions; knowing Monmouth's secret, he was now completely master of their fate. If Angela and her husband had had enough presence of mind to scrutinize Croustillac's face, they would have seen a kind of triumphant and malignant joy, which betrayed itself in spite of him in the menacing frown of his forehead.
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