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Monsieur Beaucourt tells me that the poor fellow behaved with the greatest presence of mind; although he cannot of course have known what exactly was the matter with him, he gave orders that his wife was not to be disturbed, and that the hotel people were to send for a doctor at once.
But the Englishman goes happily on, quite unconscious that he is treading on what has become forbidden ground in the Burton family circle. "The present man's name is Beaucourt, a very pleasant fellow! He told me some astounding stories. I wonder if you'd like to hear the one which struck me most?"
Why, certainly!" The white-haired President of the French Senate looked curiously at the American gentleman who had sought him out at the early hour of eleven o'clock. "You will find Monsieur Beaucourt a charming man," he went on. "I hear nothing but good of the way he does his very difficult work.
On the north of the river they pushed on at daybreak through fast-falling snow until the British line was now within three-quarters of a mile to the northeast of Beaucourt and 500 yards beyond the Bois d'Holland, which was in British hands. The last advance had brought them to the outskirts of Grandcourt and here bomb fighting at close range went on throughout the day of November 18, 1916.
Monsieur Beaucourt tells me that there were more than five hundred thousand strangers in the city for whose safety, and incidentally for whose health, he was responsible!" He waits a moment, that thought naturally impresses him more than it does his audience. "Well, into that gay maelstrom there suddenly arrived a couple of young foreigners.
During this time she, like a true woman, and no ordinary place-hunter, made his devotion to her react upon himself, for the good of his country and to his own honour. She not only counselled him wisely herself, but persuaded him to surround himself with wise counsellors. Athenæum, June 25, 1904. Du Fresne de Beaucourt, Hist. de Charles VII, t. iii. p. 286.
Are you really going to be the old maid's husband?" This plain question received a plain reply: "Yes, I am." Dick took the young lord's hand. Simply and seriously, he said: "Accept my congratulations." Howel Beaucourt started as if he had received a blow instead of a compliment.
They have beaten their way steadily to the fore without much recognition in print; but since Beaucourt fell, both military and naval men have been eager to grasp their hands.
A panel, and this time a different panel from the first, slid back, and again the secretary appeared. Monsieur Beaucourt said a brief word or two, and a few moments later a tabulated list, written in round-hand, lay before him. "Here are all the accidents which have occurred in Paris during the last ninety hours."
The same day, however, he received this news he was seconded to the Royal Naval Division with the temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel. So he retained command of his old battalion the Hood. Inasmuch as the first despatches concerning the storming of Beaucourt referred to Lieutenant-Colonel Freyberg as "a naval colonel," all Britain was wondering who this hero could be.
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