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"You mus' keep in the backgroun', monsieur. Ha, ha!" The door of the coach closed with a slam. "Mademoiselle fare well!" "Drive on!" said Lady Mary. M. Beaucaire followed the carriage with his eyes. As the noise of the wheels and the hoof-beats of the accompanying cavalcade grew fainter in the distance, the handkerchief he had held against his side dropped into the white dust, a heavy red splotch.
I had heard him express boastingly his original design relative to both these girls; I comprehended the part he intended Eloise Beaucaire to play in his future, and realized that he cared more to gain possession of her, to get her into his power, than he did to obtain control of the slave.
La Carconte, on the contrary, rose, and going with a firm step towards the door, opened it, saying, as she did so 'Come in, dear M. Joannes. 'Ma foi, said the jeweller, drenched with rain, 'I am not destined to return to Beaucaire to-night. The shortest follies are best, my dear Caderousse.
"Forget that, Elsie; he's helping you now to get away. You do just what I tell you to and above all keep still. Miss Beaucaire was drugged, wasn't she?" "Ah don't know, sah. She sure does act mighty queer, but Ah nebber see her take nuthin'. Ah nebber see nuthin' 'tall till dey took me outer de shack an' galivanted me up yere. Whar I heerd yer voice afore?"
Similarly, after the 31st of May and the 2nd of June, his "Souper de Beaucaire" shows that if he condemns the departmental insurrection it is mainly because he deems it futile: on the side of the insurgents, a defeated army, no position tenable, no cavalry, raw artillerymen, Marseilles reduced to its own troops, full of hostile sans-culottes and so besieged, taken and pillaged.
The Cabaret Noir was in charge of his former acquaintance, the weary-eyed waiter, and other assistants. The barrister wondered whether Mlle. Beaucaire had taken her father completely into her confidence. To make certain he questioned the waiter. "Is Monsieur Beaucaire in?" he said. "But yes, monsieur. You will find him in the billiard-room."
Each realized that a fortune lay on the table; knew that the old Judge had madly staked his all on the value of those five unseen cards gripped in his fingers. Again, as though to bolster up his shaken courage, he stared at the face of each, then lifted his blood-shot eyes to the impassive face opposite. "Beaucaire drew two kayards," whispered an excited voice near me.
She was racking her mind to discover some means of escape from her difficulties, when chance came to her rescue. For some time a young engineer, employed in surveys along the Rhone, had made the village of Beaucaire the centre of his operations.
Meantime the Bonapartists, under the command of General Gilly, amongst whom was a regiment of chasseurs, beginning to despair of the success of their cause, felt that their situation was becoming very critical, especially as they learnt that the forces at Beaucaire had assumed the offensive and were about to march upon Nimes.
The infringement of any of these conditions will lead to your extradition and a sentence of penal servitude for life." "Ma foi!" cried the Frenchman, looking intently into the barrister's inscrutable face. "Why such tenderness?" Brett would not give him time for prolonged reflection. "I have not yet finished," he said drily. "I imagine that Mlle. Beaucaire cannot produce a marriage certificate.
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