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I waved my hand at him as the boat was leaving the cove, but I suppose that he wasn't looking for he made no answer, though Yves wigwagged with a flaming bandanna. "Now wouldn't that jar you?" said Daddy. "Wouldn't it inculcate into you a chastened spirit? Doesn't he consider me as an important patient?
Yves sleeps quietly on this occasion, without dealing any blows to the floor or the panels either with fists or feet. He has hung his watch on one of the hands of our gilded idol in order to be more sure of seeing the hour at any time of the night, by the light of the sacred lamps.
'French prisoners are very well in their place, she said, 'but I cannot see that their place is in my private dining-room. At this, to my relief, I thought I could perceive a vestige of a smile to steal upon that iron countenance and to be bitten immediately in. 'And if it is a fair question, what do they call ye? she asked. 'At your service, the Vicomte Anne de St.-Yves, said I.
Nearly all the bishops of France, and amongst others the most learned and respected of them, Yves, bishop of Chartres, refused their benediction to this shocking marriage; and the king had great difficulty in finding a priest to render him that service.
What have they to say to each other they who have seen Saint Bernard, Saint Louis, Saint Ferdinand, Saint Fulbert, Saint Yves, Blanche of Castille so many of the Elect walking past on their way into the starry gloom of the nave? Did they cause the death of their companions, the five other statues that have vanished for ever from the little assembly?
I began to feel singularly uneasy and disenchanted regarding my possible marriage. Yves and I were on duty till the next morning, and after the first bustle, which always takes place on board when settling down in harbor boats to lower, booms to swing out, running rigging to make taut we had nothing more to do but look on. We said to each other: "Where are we in reality? In the United States?
Yves de Cornault had paid a long price for the dog, for they were beginning to be in demand at the French court, and the sailor knew he had got hold of a good thing; but Anne's pleasure was so great that, to see her laugh and play with the little animal, her husband would doubtless have given twice the sum.
Yves has let fall his silver whistle in the ocean, the whistle so absolutely indispensable for the manoeuvres; and we search the town all day long, followed by Chrysantheme and Mesdemoiselles La Neige and La Lune, her sisters, in the endeavor to find another.
The Bretons would have thought that to pay their devotions to the new Virgin was tantamount to turning their backs upon their predecessor. St. Yves was the object of even deeper popular devotion, the patron saint of the lawyers having been born in the minihi of Tréguier, where the church dedicated to him is held in great veneration.
Yves, on approaching him next morning, remarked that "the night must have been a very damp one, for the wood on which the bishop's head had rested was soaked with dew." Who knows? that dew was, it may be, the first tears that had ever fallen from the eyes of Aramis! What epitaph would have been worth that, good Porthos? D'Artagnan was little used to resistance like that he had just experienced.
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