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Upon his portly figure in front he was supporting the big drum, which was securely strapped round his shoulders with tarred cordages, the spoil of some fishing vessel. There was a merciful slit in the jaw of the cardboard lion, through which the portly drummer puffed and spluttered as he shouted lustily: "En avant!"
Prince Albert's greyhound Eos his companion from his fourteenth to his twenty-fifth year, his avant courier when he came as a bridegroom to claim his bride was found dead, without previous symptom of illness. She lies buried on the top of the bank above the Slopes, and a bronze model of her marks the spot. On the 6th of August the Queen's second son was born at Windsor Castle.
"The Dromios are off, I hear," said George, turning to Marian Tweetyman; "we shall all be there soon. En avant, the Forsytes! Roll, bowl, or pitch! Who's for a cooler?" Aunt Juley gurgled, George was so droll! Should Hester get Timothy's map? Then he could show them all where they were. At a sound from Timothy, interpreted as assent, Aunt Hester left the room.
She was waiting for him when he returned to the Hôtel d'Angleterre. "You were right about Marie," she acknowledged. "She has two brothers in the army. She has money enough for her fare to Paris, and is going as soon as possible." "In the meanwhile she is safe enough here. So, en avant!" He took her bag, and they stepped out into the sunshine.
For Murray's letter tells me that he is already in full communication with Jules Victor at the Hotel Bellevue. So the 'Moonshee' has one faithful friend near at hand. If there is any shadowing of either of you, Jules Victor is an invincible avant garde. He knows the faces of all the dramatis persona.
Hal, turning in his saddle at this moment, caught from the hands of a reeling trooper the Eagle of France, and as he raised it aloft, the light, flashing upon the golden wings, brought an answering shout from those that remained of the troop. "En avant!" came the rallying cry.
Looking round him, he saw Mallet de Graville, who had remounted, and said, shortly: "Pardex, dear knight, we thought you already with St. Michael! joy, that you live yet to be an English earl. Look you, ride to Fitzosborne with the signal-word, 'Li Hardiz passent avant! Off, and quick." De Graville bowed, and darted across the plain.
"I have been too long abroad, Maria Dmitrievna, I am well aware of that. But my heart has always been Russian, and I have not forgotten my native land." "Yes, yes. There's nothing like that. Your husband certainly didn't expect you in the least. Yes, trust my experience la patrie avant tout. Oh! please let me! What a charming mantilla you have on!" "Do you like it?"
"Oh! no soul is sad alongside me. I lift up their poor little hearts with my consigne: 'Courage, tout le monde, le diable est mort. Ha! ha!" "So be it, then," said Gerard. "But take back your belt, for I could never trust by halves. We will go together as far as Rhine, and God go with us both!" "Amen!" said Denys, and lifted his cap. "En avant!"
"Ten years, ten long, glorious, splendid years." "Ten years! Surely not ten!" "Yes, ten beautiful years." "I wish to God I had come with you then. I might have been well, I should have been saved some bumps and a ghastly cropper at last." "'Cut it out, Jack, as the boys say here. En avant! We never look back in this land, but ever forward. Oh, now isn't this worth while?"
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