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The Emperor's servants began laughing, and some one amongst, the mob imagining it to be in derision, exclaimed, with manifest disappointment, "Eh bien, Messieurs, que voulez vous donc; mais allons mes amis! crions tous Vive le Roi;" and having once received this new impulse, they not only raised, with one consent, a shout of Vive le Roi, but next moment, by their menaces, compelled Napoleon, who began to tremble for his person, to join in the cry of loyalty.
Madame Bernier sprang up in her seat, threw out her arms, and sank down again, burying her face in her knees. Her companion hastily shipped his oars, and laid his hands on her shoulders. 'Allons donc, in the devil's name, don't break down, said he; 'we'll come to an understanding.
Pierre had been a chasseur in the Franco-Prussian War. His daughter was very proud of it, but one of her games was to mock him fondly by swaggering back and forth while she sang: "Allons, enfants de la patrie, Le jour de gloire est arrivé." When she came to the chorus, nothing would do but all of them must join.
Allons, messieurs, over this gate, across this meadow, and here is the copse. How boldly that superb ash-tree with its fine silver bark rises from the bank, and what a fine entrance it makes with the holly beside it, which also deserves to be called a tree! But here we are in the copse.
'I don't wish to go into the wood, Madame. 'And for what? 'Poor mamma is buried there. 'Is there the vault? demanded Madame eagerly. I assented. 'My faith, curious reason; you say because poor mamma is buried there you will not approach! Why, cheaile, what would good Monsieur Ruthyn say if he heard such thing? You are surely not so unkain', and I am with you. Allons.
Some men go to the Avocat or the Cure with great things; but I have been a pilgrimage, I have sat on the grand jury. There, Ma'm'selle!" His chest swelled, he blew out his cheeks, he pulled Parpon's ear as Napoleon pulled Murat's. "Ma'm'selle, allons!
He straightened up and looked over his shoulder. "For the Boches are in Nivelle woods," he added, with an oath, "and we ought to be on our way to Sainte Lesse, if we are to arrive there at all. Allons, comrade, take him by the head!"
"Et dire que ce sont des Hongrois qui jouent tout cela!" a humourist remarked from the pavement. As the evening wore on and the crowd about our window thickened, the loiterers outside began to join in the war-songs. "Allons, debout! " and the loyal round begins again. "La chanson du depart" is a frequent demand; and the chorus of spectators chimes in roundly.
He sat there the picture of insolent ignorance, this pig of a peasant. At times the auctioneer rallied the undecided with coarse jokes, and the crowd roared, for they are not burdened with delicacy, these Norman farmers. "Allons! Allons! my good ladies!" croaked the auctioneer. "Forty sous for the lot.
The band struck up, unbidden, with all its power, the Marseillaise Hymn; and every voice in the piazza, and, by degrees, along the neighbouring streets and square, seemed to join in singing the familiar words "Allons enfants de la patrie, Le jour de gloire est arrive." The consternation of the deputies and their guests was extreme.
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