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During the night of April 15, 1917, the British captured Villeret, southeast of Hargicourt, which served to further widen the second gap in the Hindenburg line north of St. Quentin. The British were successful in all these minor struggles in making prisoners, and owing to the Germans' hurried retreat vast quantities of military stores fell into their hands.
"The reward will be limited I'm afraid," she replied, "for my temper is unaccountably out of sorts this afternoon." "And, if one may make bold to inquire, why out of sorts, dear Miss St. Quentin?" He sat down on the parapet near her, crossed his legs, and fell to nursing his left knee. The woman of the black bodice went up across the pale stubble to her companions.
Even then it seemed possible that the brave soldier, who had been recently defiling his sword in the cause of tyranny, might be come mindful of his brighter and earlier fame. Had Egmont been as true to his native land as, until "the long divorce of steel fell on him," he was faithful to Philip, he might yet have earned brighter laurels than those gained at St. Quentin and Gravelines.
And so the luncheon finished gaily enough, though Miss St. Quentin was conscious her contributions to the cultivation of that same gaiety were but spasmodic.
Quentin Durward found something singularly and disagreeably significant in the tone with which this was spoken; and, looking suddenly at the speaker, thought he saw in his countenance, in the slight smile that curled his upper lip, and the accompanying twinkle of his keen dark eye, something to justify his unpleasing surprise.
"This sounds very polite, worthy sir," said Quentin, "but, by the Cross of Saint Andrew, I cannot even guess at your meaning." "Your oath," answered the merchant of Liege, "as well as your accent, convinces me that we are right in our conjecture." "By my patron Saint Quentin!" said Durward, "I am farther off from your meaning than ever."
Finally, he dismissed him abruptly and turned to Diana. "Ah Mees Quentin." He softened a little. He had a great affection for this promising pupil of his, and welcomed her with a smile. "I am seek of that young man with his voice of an archangel and his brains of a feesh! . . . So! You haf come back from your visit to the country? And how goes it with the voice?"
"Holy Mary, will the King again place confidence in these outcasts?" "I will question the man, if it be your pleasure," said Quentin, "and assure myself of his fidelity as I best may."
But Quentin, to whom the importance attached to victory over this formidable antagonist was better known, sprung from his horse at the bottom of the breach, and, letting the noble animal, the gift of the Duke of Orleans, run loose through the tumult, ascended the ruins to measure swords with the Boar of Ardennes.
Where have you been?" cried Quentin, shaking him violently in his agitation. "Gimme time, gimme time!" panted Turk. "I've got to git my breath, ain't I? She's flew th' coop, an' I couldn't head her off. Say, has a priest been loafin' aroun' here lately?" "A priest!" cried Lord Bob. "There hasn't been one here since Father Bivot came three years ago to " "I mean this week, not t'ree years ago.
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