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A boy officer came up out of a hole and saluted the captain, who stepped back and said, in an emotional way: "Tiens! C'est toi, Edouard?" "Oui, mon Capitaine." The boy had a fine, delicate, Latin face, with dark eyes and long, black eyelashes. "You are a lieutenant, then? How does it go, Edouard?" "It does not go," answered the boy like that French sergeant in Ablain St.-Nazaire.
A tramping of feet again, and a sea of round hats bobbing up and down and vanishing in the gloom. Then I heard a cheery "Ça va, monsieur? Pas de mal?" By way of answer I lighted a match and held it out, torch fashion. The light glistened on a round, red face and a long French bayonet. Finally I said, "Vous êtes Français, monsieur?" in a weak, watery voice. "Mais oui, mon vieux!
Where is that from?" "It's from the R-Revelation." "Oh, je m'en souviens, oui, l'Apocalypse. Lisez, lisez, I am trying our future fortunes by the book. I want to know what has turned up. Read on from there...." "'And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write: These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
"Surely," said Lawrence, "you don't mean that little piece of smooth snow rising just behind the crest of yonder mountain like a bit of rounded sugar?" "Oui, monsieur" that was precisely what she meant; that was the summit of Mont Blanc.
How many Life-guardsmen he had annihilated: 'Ah! ben oui! he was afraid to say. He had been personally noticed by 'Le p'tit caporal. There were many, whose deeds were not to compare with his, who had been made princes and mareschals. PARBLEU! but his luck was bad. 'Pas d'chance! pas d'chance!
He almost dragged the younger man away, hurrying him toward the sled and its broad-backed old horses. "We must go to the cabin, oui yes! Hurry " Houston saw that he was trembling. "Eet is the thing I look for the thing I look for!" "Ba'tiste! What do you mean?" "My Julienne," came hoarsely. "Eet is my Julienne's!"
Other men who were not dandies sharpened their knives, smoked, feasted, and mended their spears and arrows at such seasons of leisure, or played at athletic games. "Let's follow my buck," said Joe Blunt. "Oui. Come 'long," replied Henri, striding after the rider at a pace that almost compelled his comrades to run. "Hold on!" cried Dick, laughing; "we don't want to keep him company.
"Oui, vraiment yei a-a ow morbleu!" "Eh, what's that? Oh, misere!" "Tare an' ages!"
"Ja wohl! ja wohl!" he went on chuffily, summing up: latent fever, the very lips were blue, dry as husks; "he would go, oui? then go!" with a chuckle. "All right, glück zu!" And so shuffled out latent fever? Doubtless, yet hardly from broken bones, the doctor thought, with no suspicion of the subtile, intolerable passion smouldering in every drop of this man's phlegmatic blood.
Straight above him was the Red Moon, inviting him to the thrill and mystery of the open world. The sound grew in his throat, and slowly it rose in volume until his answer was rising to the stars. In their cabin Pierrot and the Willow heard it. Pierrot shrugged his shoulders. "He is gone," he said. "Oui, he is gone, mon pere" replied Nepeese, peering through the window.
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