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And he took with him some photo' showing that mother and chile with the mother's hair comb' to egspose that pompon gris; and also he took copy from those record' of babtism of the babtism of that li'l' Fortune, émigré. "Same time, here at home, our Fortune she was so sick with something the doctor he coul'n' make out the nature, and she coul'n' eat till they're af-raid she'll die.
He looked at me again, "Ah! vos cheveux sont gris, mais pour les sourcils, non pas, vous avez raison," and altering them to "noirs," he sent me about my business. Bar and bolt were opened, and at length we found ourselves in the presence of these popular prisoners Popular, at least, amongst the female part of the world.
Francois would have stopped if he could, for he feared they were taking him to an ambush, but it was too late, and in a few minutes he found himself in a small open space, where eight or ten men on horseback were drawn up. "Oh! oh!" said the prince, "what does this mean, monsieur?" "Ventre St. Gris! it means that we are saved." "You! Henri!" cried the duke, stupefied, "you! my liberator?"
But this Mademoiselle de Lavedan is of a vastly different mettle. She is a woman; not a doll. She is flesh and blood; not sawdust, powder, and vermilion. She has a heart and a will; not a spirit corrupted by vanity and licence." La Fosse burst into a laugh. "Hark! O, hark!" he cried, "to the apostle of the chaste!" "Saint Gris!" exclaimed another.
At last, he found himself in the open country, scorching along a sandy road that traversed the low dunes lying between the town of Calais and Cape Gris Nez.
The landlord of the "Chat Gris" by name, Brogard had taken no further notice of his guests; he concluded that presently they would order supper, and in the meanwhile it was not for a free citizen to show deference, or even courtesy, to anyone, however smartly they might be dressed.
«Le rocher de la cascade, représenté par la planche IV. est tout calcaire; les couches, qui sont au dessous des lettres d et e, sont composées de ce roc gris compact dont les bancs, comme nous l'avons vu plus haut, sont ordinairement épais, mais les couches extérieures entre e et f, sont du roc brun
To this priest I had made some handsome presents, and he, in return, gave me twelve gris gris, and assured me that they would inevitably secure me from all danger, at the same time he gave me directions how to dispose of them. Some were to be carried about my person; one secretly placed over each archway; another kept under my pillow, and another under the door of the house I was then building."
Though respected by the vermin, the glorious imperial is nevertheless ruined not by larvae, but by a parasitic fungus, the Mycogone rosea, which spreads in a purply stain and turns it into a putrid mass. This is the only despoiler that I know it to possess. It is called lou pichot gris, the grayling, in these parts, because of its coloring, which is usually an ashen gray.
"By gar!" cried Antoine le Gris, "now he drum us on to Detroit." Out of the gate rushed Cowan, the frightened villagers scattering right and left. Antoine had a friend who lived in this street, and in ten minutes there was rum in the powder-horns, and the toast was "On to Detroit!" Colonel Clark was sitting alone in the commanding officer's room of the garrison.
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