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Luckily I met him when going home in my cariole! Okematan, the Indian, was with me. So he got out, and said he would pilot Davidson safe home! He said something about Fergus McKay, which I could not understand, so I have come on, and will drive to Fort Garry with the news! But my horse has broke down! Is yours in the stable?" Dechamp was a sturdy young half-breed and an old playmate of La Certe.
Look out, Slowfoot, and ask what has happened." Slowfoot finished the scraping of the kettle before obeying; then lifted the curtain that closed the opening of their tent, and peeped out. "It is Kateegoose loading his gun, I think." La Certe got up, with a sigh of regret at the necessity for exertion, and, lifting the curtain-door, stepped out. "What are they firing at, Kateegoose?"
"It comes from the camp of the Switzers, I think," said Elspie McKay. "I know it," said Jessie Davidson, who was seated on a log beside her friend. "It is Francois La Certe. He came to our meeting-place in Red River, you know, just after Cuthbert Grant and his men left us, and, hearing that we were starting off to Jack River again, he resolved to follow.
Every wise man will admit that the possibilities of nature are infinite, and include centaurs; but he will not the less feel it his duty to hold fast, for the present, by the dictum of Lucretius, "Nam certe ex vivo Centauri non fit imago," and to cast the entire burthen of proof, that centaurs exist, on the shoulders of those who ask him to believe the statement.
The other tenets of the Religion of Humanity had been impressed upon me by argument, but at the mere statement of this my heart responded, O Dea Certe! "Subsequently, in response to my questioning, Régnier explained to me how the master had recommended his disciples to give practical effect to the cult of womanhood.
Look at Oke there, now, what a depth of stupidity lies behind his brown visage; what bucketsful of ignorance swell out his black pate, but he expresses it all in the single word `Waugh! because he's a philosopher. If he was like La Certe, he'd jabber away to us by the hour of things he knows nothin' about, and tell us long stories that are nothin' less than big lies.
Filled with wonder, and some small degree of hope, Dan and La Certe followed the young man, accompanied by their guards, who were not less mystified than themselves.
Si enim Alexander magnam vim pecuniae suppeditavit Aristoteli, qua conduceret venatores, aucupes, piscatores et alios, quo instructior accederet ad conscribendam historiam animalium; certe majus quiddam debetur iis, qui non in saltibus naturae pererrant, sed in labyrinthis artium viam sibi aperiunt."
"Water! water!" exclaimed La Certe at this point, holding out both hands. "I can never pass this part of my story without burning thirst!" A mug of water was handed him. "Poor fellow have some brandy in it," said a sympathetic hearer, hastily getting out his bottle. La Certe held out his mug impatiently for the brandy, drained the mug, and cleared his voice.
Grotius, content with gratifying his pacific desires, expected his reward from posterity; which he clearly intimates in some verses written by him on this subject Accipe sed placidis, quæ si non optima, certe, Expressit nobis non mala pacis amor. Et tibi dic, nostro labor hic si displicet ævo, A gratâ pretium posteritate feret.