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And yet we seem to get on good terms at once." While they talked a tall thin youth of clear dark complexion, carrying a long bundle under his arm, approached the fire and Lieutenant Colonel St. Hilaire welcomed him with joy. "Julien! Julien de Langeais, my young relative!" he cried. "And you are indeed alive! I thought you lost!"
Major Warde, the commandant at Chambly, at once embarked his company on a scow and dropped down the river to St Hilaire; but he arrived too late to allow of any further action that day, and it was not until the morning of the 25th that the column moved on St Charles. Meanwhile, the rebels had been making preparations for defence.
Hilaire that it was, in the face of all the Academies and under the fire of very learned indignation, he proclaimed this truth, which one cannot lose sight of without losing one's way in a crowd of arbitrary fancies. I return, then, to the definition which I gave you in speaking of the worm, and which is the final word of the ideas I have been endeavoring to make you understand.
It's only excitement, nervous exhaustion. She must rest and eat. Wait quietly and don't look at her." Jean moved restlessly about the room; Hilaire, gravely silent, seemed to see nothing. So the two men waited until the girl was able to control her sobs. "I am so sorry," she said presently. "I have made you uncomfortable; forgive me." "Will you take a brandy-and-soda if I give it you?"
Hilaire took from under his own coat a small box. They put the board upon a broad stone, arranged the chessmen, as they were at the latest interruption, and, as the moonlight came through the dwarfed pines and cedars, the two gray heads bent over the game. General Sheridan permitted the Winchester men to rest a long time, or rather he ordered them to do so.
The poor man had alighted there for a time, like a bird on a tree; and among these continually shifting scenes, the lad had felt himself more than ever a stranger among strangers; so that he experienced always a secret though joyless satisfaction in returning to the cloisters of the St. Hilaire college and submitting himself to the yoke of the paternal but inflexible discipline of the Church.
Hilaire, with a tone of almost gayety; "I can afford to be invalided if the Emperor has no further occasion for me." While these few words were interchanging, Louis had applied a tourniquet around the wounded limb, and having given the soldiers directions how they were to step, so as not to disturb or displace the shattered bones, he took his place beside the litter, and said,
The new Christian spirit arose with Paulinus, disciple of Ausonius; Juvencus, who paraphrases the gospels in verse; Victorinus, author of the Maccabees; Sanctus Burdigalensis who, in an eclogue imitated from Vergil, makes his shepherds Egon and Buculus lament the maladies of their flock; and all the saints: Hilaire of Poitiers, defender of the Nicean faith, the Athanasius of the Occident, as he has been called; Ambrosius, author of the indigestible homelies, the wearisome Christian Cicero; Damasus, maker of lapidary epigrams; Jerome, translator of the Vulgate, and his adversary Vigilantius, who attacks the cult of saints and the abuse of miracles and fastings, and already preaches, with arguments which future ages were to repeat, against the monastic vows and celibacy of the priests.
The colonel, no doubt, was right. Shepard was a spy and should be taken. He ran as fast as any of them. Shepard, if Shepard it was, heard the swift footsteps behind him, glanced back and then ran. "After him!" cried Major St. Hilaire, his volatile blood leaping high. "His flight shows that he's a spy!" But the fugitive was a man of strength and resource.
Who knows what this wicked woman will now do to avenge herself?" She found it out the second day afterwards. Coming down a little before seven o'clock, in order to buy her roll and her milk for breakfast, she met at the entrance-door Mrs. Hilaire, face to face.
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