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And in the meantime, gentlemen," he added with a stateliness that was natural to him, "I have business which takes me to-day to my brother-in-law's, Monsieur de Beausejour's." Nick leaned over the gallery and watched meditatively his prospective father-in-law leaving the court-yard. "He got me out of a devilish bad scrape," he said. "How was that?" I asked listlessly.
And in the meantime, gentlemen," he added with a stateliness that was natural to him, "I have business which takes me to-day to my brother-in-law's, Monsieur de Beausejour's." Nick leaned over the gallery and watched meditatively his prospective father-in-law leaving the court-yard. "He got me out of a devilish bad scrape," he said. "How was that?" I asked listlessly.
Beausejour was a strong post, a pentagon with heavy ramparts of earth, with two bombproofs, so called, and mounting twenty-five pieces of artillery. Some of the guns were heavy metal for those days and that remote defense. I have seen them used as gateposts by the more aristocratic of Beausejour's present inhabitants. Within the fort was a garrison of one hundred and sixty regulars.
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