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There may have been on the one side and the other just the faintest glitter of recognition, as you see a bayonet shining out of an ambush; but each party fell back, when everything was again dark. "And you, mon capitaine, where have you been?" says Esmond, turning away the conversation from this dangerous ground, where neither chose to engage.
"The lazy dog! 'T is likely all you will get, M'sieur. Maybe you eat with me hey? Or would you wait for ze Capitaine?" "I 'll take pot-lunch with you, Broussard," I agreed genially, speaking loud enough so the negro would overhear. "I 've got to get accustomed to camp fare, and am hungry enough to begin.
"Voila," said Barlasch. "That is Kowno. I am done. Go on, mon capitaine. I will lie here, and if I am not dead to-morrow morning, I will join you." Louis looked at him with a slow smile. "I am tired as you," he said. "We will rest here until the moon rises." Already the bare larches threw shadows three times their own length on the snow.
That nice but very ponderous lady from the State of Cincinnati who regarded us from her steamer chair, enjoyed it as much as did I, and she clapped her large hands as Monsieur le Capitaine swung me around into the quietness beyond one of the tall chimneys for smoke from the engine.
Now, that" the Captain took both her hands in his "is exactly the sort of wife for me." "Monsieur le Capitaine, I have always thought you a courageous man, and now I am sure of it. You have seen and aided all my deceit; and now you want to marry me!" "A man can't know his wife too well," observed the Captain. "Come, let me go and communicate my wishes to Count Andrea." "What?
In the other xv. lodgynges, that on everie syde should folowe, the whiche should have their beginnyng on the other side of the overthwarte way, and whiche shall have the very same space, that those of the men of armes had, I woulde lodge the light horsemen: wherof beynge a hundred and fiftie, it will come to x. horsemen for a lodgyng, and in the xvi. that remaineth, I woulde lodge their Capitaine, gevynge him the verie same space, that is geven to the Capitain of the men of armes: and thus the lodginges of the horsemen of two maine battailes, will come to place in the middest the Capitaine way, and geve rule to the lodginges of the footemen, as I shall declare.
"His state of feeling does not help us much, unless expressed," I replied. "Meantime, what am I to say to the Général, the Commandant, and the Capitaine, if they ask to marry you?" The little thing plucked at the folds of her riding-skirt in the greatest perplexity.
For an hour or so the capitaine was taken up with the congratulating of his friends, and with the efforts necessary to the wearing of his new honours with an air of ease; but after that time he began to be uneasy because his wife did not come to him. At two or three in the afternoon he went to La Mere Bauche to complain. "This lackadaisical nonsense is no good," he said.
At this moment a guerillo, mounted upon a powerful black mustang, came galloping down. This man, unlike most of his comrades, was armed with the sabre, which he evidently wielded with great dexterity. He came dashing on, his white teeth set in a fierce smile. "Ha! Monsieur le Capitaine," shouted he, as he came near, "still alive? I thought I had finished you on Lobos; not too late yet!"
'Yes, I am Captain Larolle, he retorted. 'But who, in the fiend's name, are you? You are not the man we are after! 'I am not M. Cocheforet, I said coolly. 'I am merely a guest in the house, M. le Capitaine.
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