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Quentins rank with the saints." "You you are a hired servant. You come to Monsieur as you might come to anybody. With the Broux it is different," I retorted angrily. Yet I could not but know in my heart that any hired servant might have served Monsieur better than I. My boasted loyalty what was it but lip-service? I said more humbly: "Pshaw! it is no great matter. Tell me about the quarrel."

"Yet, madame, a few moments ago you were happy to meet the great artist who designed the dome you so much admired, were you not?" "Indeed, the meeting caused me great pleasure, I assure you." "I believe you also approve me for inviting him, as well as many of his colleagues, to the inauguration of their united work?" "The invitation certainly seemed almost a duty on your part, monsieur."

"Then my plan is this leave Monsieur Cassion to go his way, and let me be your guide southward. I know the trails, and the journey is not difficult. M. de la Durantaye is camped at the portage of the Des Plaines, having but a handful of men to be sure, yet he is a gallant officer, and no enemy to La Salle, although he serves the Governor.

I have said an hour, Monsieur Campbell," he went on, after the orderly had left the room, "because, in the first place, it is not yet dark, and in the second, it will take some twenty minutes to prepare a meal. You will have a long night's work before you, and I dare say you have had nothing since you halted for breakfast."

His confusion rose to a height when, taking Lili for a man's surname, he addressed the coarse M. de Senonches as M. Lili; that Nimrod broke in upon him with a "MONSIEUR LULU?" and Mme. de Bargeton flushed red to the eyes. "A woman must be blind indeed to bring this little fellow among us!" muttered Senonches.

Monsieur you must make your meaning more clear." "Mon Dieu, is it not clear already? Then I will make it so. You are my wife by law of Holy Church. Never have you loved me, yet I can pass that by, if you grant me a husband's right. This De Artigny has come between us, and now his life is in my hands.

Madame de Brie sat on her right, Monsieur de Brie on her left. Monsieur Bonvalot, her man of affairs, with his long Dundreary whiskers, opposite to her; the rest were scattered on either side of the long table. At first the conversation was general, then, after a while, Cléo was talking and the rest listening.

When I was setting out on my first campaign, that is to say, to join the army of monsieur le prince, M. le Comte de la Fere came to conduct me as far as Saint-Denis, where the remains of King Louis XIII. wait, upon the lowest steps of the funeral basilique, a successor, whom God will not send him, I hope, for many years.

Thereon I rise and wait on him; to be brief- -brevis esse laboro, as we said lang syne his lordship would have me to be of his backers in private rencontre with four gentlemen of the King's Musketeers. Concerning the cause of this duello, I may well say teterrima causa. She was, indeed, as current rumour had it, the light o'love or belle amie of Monsieur d'Artagnan, his lordship's adversary.

"Excellent barber-surgeon! Would that all your nation were no more inquisitive!" He turned to the staff officer. "Ready? On guard, then, monsieur!" The combat was really not worth describing. He had scarcely engaged before he attempted a blind cut over the scalp.