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Rabecque gripped him by the shoulder, and steadied him with a hand that hurt. "What do you say?" he gasped, his face white to the lips. Tressan halted, too, and turned upon Gaubert, a look of incredulity in his fat countenance. "Who has been killed?" he asked. "Not Monsieur de Garnache?" "Helas! yes," groaned the other. "It was a snare, a guet-apens to which they led us.
What were his own despotisms, his own rigour, his cruelty, the spy-system of Fouché, the stifled Press, the guet-apens of Bayonne, the oppression of Prussia, and one sanguinary war followed by another what were these things but the discipline, the necessary sacrifice, the martyrdom of a generation for the triumph and felicity of the centuries to come?
The artisan's face was overcast his lips compressed, yet quivering with indignation. I have just learned that all is quiet in the other quartiers where the rising was to have been simultaneous with this. We are in a guet-apens the soldiers will be down on us in a few minutes; hark! don't you hear the distant tramp? Nothing for us but to die like men. Our blood will be avenged later.
Shall you be at the Baroness's to-night? She ought to be a little of your parents, Chevalier?" "Again I fail to comprehend your lordship," said the other gentleman, rather sulkily. But what care we men of the world? You intend to go and play with the young Creole, no doubt, and get as much money from him as you can. By the way, Baron, suppose he should be a guet-apens, that young Creole?
And he wondered. Was this a trick to lure him to some guet-apens? He surveyed his man more closely; but the inspection lent no colour to his suspicions. The stranger looked so frank and honest; then again his accent was foreign. It might very well be that he was some Savoyard lordling unused to being kept waiting, and that his hunger made him irritable and impatient.
Depend on it he has got our bills mine is due to-morrow!" "And mine too," said another, edging off. "Why, it is a perfect guet-apens." Meanwhile, breaking away from the baron, who appeared anxious to detain him, and failing in that attempt, turned aside, as if not to see Dick's movements, a circumstance which did not escape the notice of the group, and confirmed all their suspicions, Mr.
"Ah!" said Denys, "above all, pray them to forgive me for bringing you into this guet-apens!" And now they grasped hands and looked in one another's eyes oh, such a look! Denys's hand was cold, and Gerard's warm. They took their posts. Denys blew out the candle. "We must keep silence now."
It was, moreover, a visible sign that Madame was a woman, très occupée, and a self-styled agent de police; it rested always silent at her side as a protector of innocence. Rust becomes uneasy when that case is mentioned, but Madame bubbles over at the thoughts of her petite chère portefeuille, cette idée de génie. She brags of her genius, of her notion si lumineuse, of her guet-apens si adorable.
It was Denys cursing and swearing and crying that he was robbed. "Did those hussies pass this way? who are they? where do they bide? They have ta'en my purse and fifteen golden pieces: raise the hue and cry! ah! traitresses! vipers! These inns are all guet-apens." "There now," cried the landlord to Gerard. Gerard implored him to be calm, and say how it had befallen.
The artisan's face was overcast his lips compressed, yet quivering with indignation. I have just learned that all is quiet in the other quartiers where the rising was to have been simultaneous with this. We are in a guet-apens the soldiers will be down on us in a few minutes; hark! don't you hear the distant tramp? Nothing for us but to die like men. Our blood will be avenged later.
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