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"Because when trooper and ribaud say to me, 'Graul, thou art too worn and too old to drink of our cup and sit in the lap, to follow the young fere to the battle, and weave the blithe dance in the fair, I would depart from my sisters, and have a hut of my own, and a black cat without a white hair, and steal herbs by the new moon, and bones from the charnel, and curse those whom I hate, and cleave the misty air on a besom, like Mother Halkin of Edmonton.
Monsieur Ribaud lifted his shoulders, threw out his hands despairingly, yet with a world of significance, and said: "An American." "Ah!" The carriage drove on and entered the gates of the chateau. And Monsieur Ribaud, cafe proprietor and Social Democrat, straightened himself in the dust and shook his fist after it.
Take her for your wife! It is monstrous! it is impossible! it is so!" There was a silence of a few minutes, and Dick looked blankly at the iron gates of the park of Fontonelles. Then he said: "Give me a cigar." Monsieur Ribaud instantly produced his cigar case.
Forseeing the dangers to which he and his followers would be exposed, should the cause in which they were engaged prove unsuccessful, it is probable he intended this foreign settlement as a retreat. Accordingly, having fitted out two ships, he gave the command of them to Jean Ribaud, and sent him with a colony of Protestants to America.
"Because when trooper and ribaud say to me, 'Graul, thou art too worn and too old to drink of our cup and sit in the lap, to follow the young fere to the battle, and weave the blithe dance in the fair, I would depart from my sisters, and have a hut of my own, and a black cat without a white hair, and steal herbs by the new moon, and bones from the charnel, and curse those whom I hate, and cleave the misty air on a besom, like Mother Halkin of Edmonton.
And the priest, his lie is magnificent! Superb! For he saw the comte in the picture-gallery, in effect, stepping into his frame!" "Oh, come off the roof," said Dick impatiently; "they must have seen SOMETHING, you know. The young lady wouldn't lie!" Monsieur Ribaud leaned over, with a mysterious, cynical smile, and lowering his voice said: "You have reason to say so. You have hit it, my friend.
On his arrival he found the spot Ribaud had relinquished; but despaired of being able to keep possession of it without regular supplies. When he found his provisions beginning to fail, he had formed resolutions of returning to Europe. While he was making preparations to embark, Ribaud fortunately arrived with seven ships, a large supply of necessaries, and a considerable body of settlers.
"Do you mean to say," said Dick furiously, "that the ragpickers and sneaks that wade around in the slumgallion of this country would dare to spatter that young gal?" "I mean to say, yes, assuredly, positively yes!" said Ribaud, rubbing his hands with a certain satisfaction at Dick's fury. "For you comprehend not the position of la jeune fille in all France!
That was the kind of "'air-pin" was it not? that HE, Gustav Ribaud, was like! Yet for all his truculent socialism, he was quick, obliging, and charmingly attentive to Dick and his needs.
Mademoiselle is young, pretty, they say, of her kind. It is an intolerable life at the old chateau; mademoiselle consoles herself!" Monsieur Ribaud never knew how near he was to the white road below the railing at that particular moment. Luckily, Dick controlled himself, and wisely, as Monsieur Ribaud's next sentence showed him.
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