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Down I did get, and taking what seemed to be the straightest course, began running down the hill side towards them. "No, no! Back, back!" shouted the guide, in unimaginable French and German. "Ici, ici!" I came back; and taking my hand, he led me along a path where travellers generally go. I went closer, and sat down on a rock under them, and looked up.
To our surprise we caught sight of the jaunty blue figure of a poilu, and then a band of slouching green-coated prisoners who were digging in their heavy leisurely manner. Mademoiselle Froissart inquired for the village of Evricourt. "Mais c'est ici, Madame," replied the soldier with a grin. "Here!" We stared.
Pierre, den Martin, all Cajun'. Oh! dass mo'n fifty year' 'go. Dey all comes from dis yeh riveh coast; 'caze de rich Creole', dey buy 'em out. Yes, seh, dat use' be de Côte Acadien', right yeh whar yo' feet stan'in' on. C'est la côte Acadien', just ici, oui." The trudging stranger waived away the right of translation. He had some reason for preferring English.
Illuminations, balls, and sports were given by the city of Paris to the deputies of the departments. A ball took place on the spot where had stood, a year before, the Bastille; gratings, fetters, ruins, were observed here and there, and on the door was the inscription, "Ici on danse," a striking contrast with the ancient destination of the spot.
Père Jerome, pausing on a street-corner in the last hour of sunlight, had wiped his brow and taken his cane down from under his arm to start again, when somebody, coming noiselessly from he knew not where, asked, so suddenly as to startle him: "Miché, commin yé 'pellé la rie ici? how do they call this street here?"
They were mostly very simple, but close to Domini and Androvsky was one of white marble, in the form of a broken column, hung with wreaths of everlasting flowers, and engraved with these words: ICI REPOSE Priez pour lui. When they lay down they both looked at this grave, as if moved by a simultaneous impulse, and read the words. "Priez pour lui!" Domini said in a low voice.
"Who is there?" he cried. "Monsieur Boris, it is I, Paulina." "You, what are you doing here?" "I came, because I knew, I knew that you have long had something to say to me, but have hesitated. Du courage. There is no one to see or hear us. Esperez tout...." "What do you want? Speak out." "Que vous m'aimez. I have known it for a long time. Vous m'avez fui, mais la passion vous a ramene ici...."
These two words, icigo and icicaille, both of which mean ici, and which belong, the first to the slang of the barriers, the second to the slang of the Temple, were flashes of light for Thenardier. By the icigo he recognized Brujon, who was a prowler of the barriers, by the icicaille he knew Babet, who, among his other trades, had been an old-clothes broker at the Temple.
"Ces dames are not accustomed to such heights a ces hauteurs peut-etre?" The ladies in truth were not, unhappily, always so well lodged; from this height at least one could hope to see a city. "Ah! ha! c'est gai par ici, n'est-ce pas? One has the sun all to one's self, and air! Ah! for freshness one must climb to an attic in these days, it appears."
Many a hasty traveller alights at the railway station for the purpose of seeing the noble monument of David d'Angers, and the antiquated humble dwelling bearing the proud inscription: "Ici naquit George Cuvier."
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