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"McElvina, my dear fellow, I am glad to see that you have had better luck than I have had this last trip. Curses on the cutter. Sacristie," continued Captain Debriseau, who was a native of Guernsey, "the wind favoured her three points after we were about, or I should have doubled him ay, and have doubled the weight of the leathern bag too.
"Ah!" he renewed, after a pause, "ah! times are sadly changed since the year 1667; when the young King he was young then took the field in Flanders, under the great Turenne. Sacristie! What a hero he looked upon his white war-horse!
Gustave entered L'Ecole des Beaux Arts and became quite a noted artist, coming out in the Salon of 1857 with the painting 'L'Obole de Cesar'. He also exhibited a little later various 'tableaux de genre': 'Buffet de chemin de fer' , 'A la Sacristie' and 'Un Succes de Salon' , 'Monsieur le Cure, vous avez Raison' and 'Un Froid Sec' .
Seymour looked at him earnestly, and thought he could not well be mistaken, long as it was since they had been in company. "Excuse me but I think we once met at Cherbourg. Is not your name Debriseau?" "Sacristie!" replied the Frenchman, seizing himself by the hair, "je suis connu! And who are you?"
'Sire, answered the Englishman, 'give me the white plume you wore this day. From that moment the Englishman's fortune was made." "The flattery went further than the valour!" said I, smiling, as I recognized in the anecdote the first great step which my father had made in the ascent of fortune. "/Sacristie/!" cried the Frenchman, "it was no flattery then.
I'ay este d'aduis que nos Peres et nos domestiques se retirent chez ceux qu'ils croyront estre leurs mei'leurs amis; i'ay donne charge qu'on porte chez Pierre nostre premier Chrestien tout ce qui est de la Sacristie, sur tout qu'on ait vn soin particulier de mettre en lieu d'asseurance le Dictionnaire et tout ce que nous auons de la langue.
"So much the better for them; here goes for something stronger!" He repaired to the nearest drinking-saloon, and demanded a glass brimful of absinthe, at which all the garçons and patrons held up their hands while he drank it to the dregs. "Sacristie!" cried a man with mouth wide open, "that gentleman can drink clear laudanum."
'Sire, answered the Englishman, 'give me the white plume you wore this day. From that moment the Englishman's fortune was made." "The flattery went further than the valour!" said I, smiling, as I recognized in the anecdote the first great step which my father had made in the ascent of fortune. "Sacristie!" cried the Frenchman, "it was no flattery then.
"Parbleu, mon!" replied he; "he has twice made the journey to Fresnes this morning with despatches for Marshal Ney; the Emperor is enraged with the marshal for having retreated last night, having the wood in his possession; he says he should have waited till daybreak, and then fallen upon your retreating columns. As it is, you are getting away without much loss. Sacristie, that was a fine charge!"
"Ah!" he renewed, after a pause, "ah! times are sadly changed since the year 1667; when the young King he was young then took the field in Flanders, under the great Turenne. /Sacristie/! What a hero he looked upon his white war-horse!
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