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'I don't know that you will go with us, he said, with a snarl. 'That is as we please. 'I have the Cardinal's orders, I said sternly. 'The Cardinal? he exclaimed, stung to fury by this repetition of the name. 'The Cardinal be But the Lieutenant laid his hand on his lips and stopped him. 'Hush! he said. Then more quietly, 'Your pardon, M. le Capitaine; but the least said the soonest mended.
Finally, came an incident truly French and delightful in its boyishness, as mon capitaine hinted that I should ask mon colonel if he would permit mon capitaine to go into town and have dinner with my friend and the admiral and myself, returning in my friend's car in time to proceed to the firing-line with the battalion to-morrow.
"I am fleeing away from madness, from a delirious dream. I am fleeing away to seek for Russia. Existe-t-elle, la Russie? Bah! C'est vous, cher capitaine! I've never doubted that I should meet you somewhere on some high adventure.... But take my umbrella, and why must you be on foot? For God's sake, do at least take my umbrella, for I shall hire a carriage somewhere in any case.
"Very good, mon capitaine," and Bob saluted military fashion, while the other laughed. "I don't know quite what to do with you yet, Nancarrow," said Pringle. "You see, you are too good a man for a private beside, you want to go straight to the front. Naturally, too, at such times as these we can't do everything by cast-iron rule. Exceptional cases demand exceptional treatment.
"Goodnight" And with that he strolled negligently from the room, and I heard him humming a tune as he mounted the stairs towards his bedroom. "I have come to bring you a card for the Court ball, Capitaine," said General Daru, as he opened the door of my dressing-room the following morning. "See what a number of them I have here; but except your own, the addresses are not filled up.
"Had you any idea," I asked, "that he had enemies over here?" She shook her head. "It is not that," she said. "We will not talk of it just now. It is not that he has enemies, but he has very, very important business to arrange, and there are some who do not think as he thinks about it. Shall we talk about something else, Capitaine Rotherby?
This time Dominique's arm swung back the door with less pomposity, and Dominique's voice was a trifle less emphatic as he ushered in "M. le Capitaine." Again Mary and I scuttled about like young rabbits, and then stood still, staring shyly, and again our embarrassment was met by the calmest nonchalance. The second figure was a man of much more presence than the Commandant.
"Oh, my Uncle Robert, is it that a woman would make a cheat in giving the mule animal of not sufficient strength to carry food to poor boys of France in the trenches when there is too much mud for gasoline!" I exclaimed with a great horror from knowledge given me by my Capitaine, the Count de Lasselles. "Just exactly what she is trying to do, boy.
There was an artist, too, who held an argument with the architect on art which mon capitaine considered meretricious and hair-splitting, his conviction being that they were only airing a wordy pretentiousness and really knew little more of what they were talking about than he.
Mon Capitaine, you know with certainty there is not a channel deep enough for our yacht?" "I never heard of one," Gates answered. "Of course, there might be; only I never heard of it." "If there were, why did they abandon the Orchid?" Tommy asked. "It will bear looking into," the professor mused. "Now, that paper with the dots and rambling line! Could it represent a chart to their stronghold?"
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