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Updated: June 14, 2025
"Jean," he said, looking at the grave, "Jean Labrouk, a man dies well that dies with his gaiters on, aho!... What have you said for Jean Labrouk, m'sieu'?" he added to the priest. The priest stared at him, as though he had presumed. "Well?" said Gabord. "Well?" The priest answered nothing, but prepared to go, whispering a word of comfort to the poor wife.
"'Twas the crimson one, as quiet as a baby chick, not hanging to ma'm'selle's skirts, but watching and whispering a little now and then and she there in Bigot's palace, and he not knowing it! And maids do not tell him, for they knew the poor wench in better days aho!" I got up with effort and pain, and made to grasp his hand in gratitude, but he drew back, putting his arms behind him.
"'Tis a long tune on a dot of a fiddle," said he, for indeed the letter was but a small affair in bulk. "I'd need two pairs of eyes and telescope! Is it all Heart-o'-my-heart, and Come-trip-in-dewy-grass aho? Or is there knave at window to bear m'sieu' away?" I took the letter from him. "Listen," said I, "to what the lady says of you."
You remember what she said?" "Tonnerre, you shall see to-morrow," he answered; "now all the sheep go bleating with the bell. Bigot Bigot Bigot there is nothing but Bigot! But, pish! Vaudreuil the Governor is the great man, and Montcalm, aho! son of Mahomet! You shall see. Now they dance to Bigot's whistling; he will lock her safe enough to-morrow, 'less some one steps in to help her.
So I spoke to Gabord. "Voban! Voban!" said he. "Does dickey-bird play at peacock still? Well, thou shalt see Voban. Thou shalt go trimmed to heaven aho!" Presently I asked him if he would bear a message to the Governor, asking permission for the Seigneur Duvarney to visit me, if he were so inclined.
But then, if no second squall is coming, the mate will cut the clewing short with a stentorian 'Masthead the yards again! on which the watch lay on to the halliards and haul Ahay! Aheigh! Aho oh! Up she goes! The labour is lightened, as hand labour always has been lightened, by singing to the rhythm of the work.
He looked doubtful, but accepted. "Aho! And that Voban, he would have had his hand in," he growled. I began to get more light. "She was shut up at Chateau Bigot hand of iron and lock of steel who knows the rest! But Voban was for always," he added presently. The thing was clear. The Scarlet Woman was Mathilde. So here was the end of Voban's little romance of the fine linen from Ste.
The blow struck straight at my side, but it went through the knapsack, which had swung loose, and so saved my life; for another instant and I had tripped him down, and he lay bleeding badly. "Aho! 'twas a fair fight," said he. "Now get you gone. I call for help." "I can not leave you so, Gabord," said I. I stooped and lifted up his head.
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!"
"'Tis a long tune on a dot of a fiddle," said he, for indeed the letter was but a small affair in bulk. "I'd need two pairs of eyes and telescope! Is it all Heart-o'-my-heart, and Come-trip-in-dewy-grass aho? Or is there knave at window to bear m'sieu' away?" I took the letter from him. "Listen," said I, "to what the lady says of you."
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