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A torch was burning near him. "Wake up, my dickey-bird," said he in his rough, mocking voice, "and we'll snuggle you into the pot. You've been long hiding; come out of the bush aho!" I drew myself up painfully. "What is the hour?" I asked, and meanwhile I looked for the earthen jar and the bread. "Hour since when?" said he. "Since it was twelve o'clock last night," I answered.
And by-and-bye crack'll go his spine aho!" You have heard a lion growling on a bone. That is how Gabord's voice sounded to me then a brutal rawness; but it came to my mind also that this was the man who had brought Voban to do me service! "Come, come, Gabord, crack your jaws less, and see you fetch him on his feet again," said Doltaire.
My hair, which had been black, was plentifully sprinkled with white, my face was intensely pale and thin, and the eyes were sunk in dark hollows. I should not have recognized myself. But I laughed as I handed back the glass, and said, "All flesh is grass, but a dungeon's no good meadow." "'Tis for the dry chaff," Gabord answered, "not for young grass aho!"
"It is a marriage our great Archbishop at Lambeth Palace will uphold against a hundred popes and kings," said the chaplain with importance. "You are no priest, but holy peddler!" cried Gabord roughly. "This is not mating as Christians, and fires of hell shall burn aho! I will see you all go down, and hand of mine shall not be lifted for you!"
"Let no man put asunder," she answered softly and solemnly. "Aho!" said Gabord, and turned his head away. Then the door shut upon me, and though I am no Catholic, I have no shame in saying that I kissed the feet on the crucifix which her lips had blessed.
He had added some brandy, also, of which I was glad, for it was bitter cold outside, as I discovered later. He was quiet, seeming often to wish to speak, but pausing before the act, never getting beyond a stumbling aho! I greeted him cheerfully enough. After making a little toilette, I drank my coffee with relish.
By-and-bye, without any relevancy at all, he said abruptly, "If a little sooner she had come aho!" For a moment I could not think what he meant; but soon I saw. "The palace would have been burnt if the girl in scarlet had come sooner eh?" I asked. "She would have urged the people on?" "And Bigot burnt, too, maybe," he answered. "Fire and death eh?" I offered him another pipeful of tobacco.
Wonderful of course if you say: good evening, and you see she's on for it: good evening. O but the dark evening in the Appian way I nearly spoke to Mrs Clinch O thinking she was. Whew! Girl in Meath street that night. All the dirty things I made her say. All wrong of course. My arks she called it. It's so hard to find one who. Aho!
Sick as I was, I thought of that as he stood there, looking in at me; and though I knew I ought to hate him, I admired him in spite of all. Presently he said to Gabord, "You'll come to me at noon to-morrow, and see you bring good news. He breathes?" Gabord put a hand on my chest and at my neck, and said at once, "Breath for balloons aho!"
And by-and-bye crack'll go his spine aho!" You have heard a lion growling on a bone. That is how Gabord's voice sounded to me then a brutal rawness; but it came to my mind also that this was the man who had brought Voban to do me service! "Come, come, Gabord, crack your jaws less, and see you fetch him on his feet again," said Doltaire.
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