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But at the barrier he saw two gendarmes lying in wait for the carriage. A cry of horror burst from him, but Melmoth gave him a glance, and again the sound died in his throat. "Keep your eyes on the stage, and be quiet!" said the Englishman.
After an imprisonment of ten weeks he made some pecuniary sacrifices to obtain his liberty, but was carried to Havre, under an escort of gendarmes, put on board a neutral vessel, and forbidden, under pain of death, ever to set his foot on French ground again.
"And with what crime is Monsieur de Rubempre charged?" asked Clotilde, whom the Duchess wished to see safe in the carriage. "Of being accessory to a robbery and murder," replied the sergeant of gendarmes. Baptiste lifted Mademoiselle de Grandlieu into the chaise in a dead faint.
Had the gendarmes met me while water-wandering at night, they would certainly have concluded that I was a fish-poacher. All fishing by night in French rivers and streams is illegal, but it is much practised notwithstanding. There are many carp in the Isle, weighing from fifteen to twenty pounds, but they are very rarely caught.
They have thrown in more than a hundred of our people, both from here and from the city. Three and four persons have been put into one cell. The prison officials are rather a good set. They are exhausted with the quantity of work the gendarmes have been giving them. The prison authorities are not extremely rigorous, they don't order you about roughly.
Hearing the sound of the guns, the common people came out along the road with fowling-pieces and pitchforks, in hopes to catch the truant. The gendarmes seemed very anxious to be on the look-out for him too. The price of a deserter was fifty crowns to those who brought him in.
"You are free to go." "To go?" "It is your mistress's wish." "She will not send me to prison?" "She scorns to do anything whatever." For a moment the girl looked puzzled, and then: "Ah! it is a bad pleasantry; the gendarmes are on the stairs." I shrugged my shoulders, and at length she tripped quietly out of the room. I heard her run down-stairs.
"Because they would be killed for complaining," said the missionary. Then he told Governor-General Saito how he had once complained to the police department when a father and son were cruelly beaten in prison. "Give me their names," said the gendarme. "I will if you will give me a promise that they will be protected." "No! I cannot do that! The gendarmes are very revengeful!"
He had grown white and grayish looking, and at every sound that he heard, he trembled, for he thought: "Now they are coming to fetch you, to put you into prison." Churi had heard that someone who had thrown another boy into the water had been fetched by two gendarmes and had been put into prison, where he had been kept for twenty years in chains.
Roland was to search the interior, taking with him five gendarmes and seven dragoons. Half an hour was allowed each squad to reach its post; it was more than was needed. Roland and his men were to scale the orchard wall when half-past eleven was ringing from the belfry at Peronnaz.
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