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Do not pull so hard, my friends; I shall come through gradually; I feel that I advance, not quickly, it is true, but I do advance." "Ventre de biche!" murmured Chicot, "it is M. de Mayenne. Holy Virgin, you have gained your candles." And he made a noise with his feet like some one running fast. "They are coming," cried several voices from inside.
With impatient hands he tore off the paper coverings, and so eagerly was he engaged with them, that he did not perceive that Biche and Apollo were already fighting for a scrap of paper which he had thrown directly on Biche's nose, and which she consequently mistook for a delicate morsel, a prize worth a fight with Apollo.
In her salon, hung with red damask, with curtains of the same lined with silk, a fire on the hearth, a mantel-shelf adorned with bibelots of the good time of Louis XV., and bearing candelabra in the form of lilies upheld by Cupids in this salon, filled with furniture in gilded wood of the "pied de biche" pattern, it is not impossible to understand why the people of Soulanges called the mistress of the house, "The beautiful Madame Soulanges."
"Nearly all," exclaimed Norman; "unless you go a great ways from here. Unless," he continued, his smile broadening into a grin, "you can arrange to go home with Moosetooth here or La Biche." "Well," responded the young man as he lit a new cigarette, "if that's true I think I'm going with them." His tone was so positive and so conclusive that neither Norman nor Roy made any immediate comment.
"Ventre de biche! so then they took another way?" "Yes, dear M. Chicot, they are getting out through the cellar." "How does that run?" "From the crypt to the Porte St. Jacques." "You lie; I should have seen them repass before this cell." "No, dear M. Chicot; they thought they had not time for that, so they are creeping out through the air-hole." "What hole?"
One of these, with a coil of rope, sprang into the bow of the forward scow, and another similarly equipped took his place in the rear of La Biche, as if ready to spring on the second scow when opportunity presented. Both boats were headed for the cut bank.
"Oh!" thought Chicot, "here is the penitent. She looks young; it is very odd, but I find resemblances in every one I see. And here comes the squire; as for him, there is no mistake; I know him, and if he be Mayneville ventre de biche! why should not the lady be Madame de Montpensier? And, morbleu! that woman is the duchess!" After a moment, he saw the pale head of Borromée behind them.
It is probable he has been some hours awake and has written to some of his friends perhaps to Voltaire, or Algarotti; this makes him always bright and clear." "You think I shall obtain my audience?" "I think you will." "Then, dear friend, I have only to say that I hope you will give me the chocolate for that noble and soul-searching hound, the Signora Biche."
Its name of `grey moose' is a hunter appellation, to distinguish it from the real moose, which the same hunters know as the `black moose. `Round-horned elk' is also a hunter name. `Wewaskish, or `waskesse, is an Indian name for the animal. `Stag' comes from the European deer so called, because this species somewhat resembles the stag; and `red deer' is a name used by the Hudson Bay traders. `Le biche' is another synonyme of French authors.
In Athabasca, Roy had learned that their boat crew had not all returned, but that La Biche and Moosetooth had reached town and that both were already serving as pilots on the new Hudson's Bay Company steamer that had been launched in their absence and was now making its first trip up the river.
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