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I am seventy, and yet I have risen with the sun for more than sixty-five years. Have you any books?" "Only of a religious and sacred character, and a volume of the letters of the Order." Brother Jacques offered these without confidence. "Drivel! Find me something lively: Monsieur Brantôme, for instance. Surely Monsieur de Lauson has these memoirs in his collection." "I shall make inquiries."
"Keep your eye upon Monsieur le Chevalier," said De Lauson; "for he will count largely before the year is gone." As for Victor, he was more or less indifferent. He was perfectly willing to fight the Indian, but his gorge rose at the thought of studying him as an individual. As a rule he found them to be unclean, vulgar and evil-minded; and the hideous paints disturbed his dreams.
All I ask of you, when we are inside the fort at Quebec, is not to gamble or drink or use profane language, to obey the king, who is represented by Monsieur de Lauson and myself, to say your prayers, and to attend mass regularly. And your friend, the Chevalier?" "On my word of honor, he laughed at a jest of mine not half an hour ago. Oh, we shall have him in his boots again ere we see land.
To the best of my knowledge, no one will succeed Monsieur le Marquis de Périgny." "So this is what brought him over here? What brought you?" "Friendship for him, an empty purse and a pocketful of ambition." The answer pleased De Lauson, and he nodded. "That is all." "Thank you, Monsieur." "I shall keep you in mind . . . if you escape the gibbet."
You ought not to have joined me. By now you would have been in Navarre or in Spain." "And lonely, lonely, lonely!" with a burst of tenderness, throwing her arms round Anne again and kissing her. "I must go; I shall weep if I remain." Half an hour later an orderly announced to his Excellency the governor that a lady desired to see him. "Admit her at once," said De Lauson.
To reach their villages they will perforce travel the same route as the Onondaga expedition. And we shall probably pass close to where our friends are." "But the boat," said madame, "Monsieur de Lauson will think that we have been drowned!" "Jean Pauquet saw me enter the boat with you, and he knows that I am a good sailor.
The path was at this point almost too narrow for her to walk around him; so she waited without replying. "And do not forget, Madame, that you are a fugitive from justice, and that a word to Monsieur de Lauson . . ." "I dare you to speak, Monsieur," with growing anger. "Have you no bogus paper to hold over my head? Are you about to play the vicomte's trick second-hand?"
I see yonder a gentleman with a haunch of venison on his shoulder." "One would think that you had had no duck or deer since we passed Acadia," laughed Du Puys. "But, patience, lad; Monsieur de Lauson invites all the gentlemen to the Fort at six to partake of his table. You have but four hours to wait for a feast such as will make your Paris eyes bulge." "Praise be!"
Sometimes this was kept up; sometimes no one offered for the voyage there being then so little greediness it is true that the Iroquois were so feared; M. de Lauson was the only one to send two individuals in 1656 who each secured 14 to 15,000 livres and came back with an indian fleet worth 100,000 crowns.
The savages made life hazardous enough, without the additional terror of duels. Victor found the governor alone, and for this he was thankful. "Monsieur de Saumaise," De Lauson began, sternly, "I gave you credit for being a young man of sense." "And a man of heart, too, your Excellency, I hope," replied the poet, valiantly. "Heart?
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