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"I never smoke," he explained. "But Antinea sometimes comes here. These are her cigarettes. Help yourselves, gentlemen." I have always had a horror of that pale tobacco which gives a barber of the Rue de la Michodière the illusion of oriental voluptuousness. But, in their way, these musk-scented cigarettes were not bad, and it was a long time since I had used up my stock of Caporal.
"'Come, come, said I, 'don't be down-hearted; good times are coming. They say Le Petit Caporal will have us in England soon. "'Mayhap, said he, sorrowfully, for he could not get over my Turks. Well, in order to cheer him up a little, I proposed that we should go and sup together at the 'Grenadier Rouge; and away we went accordingly.
Even in her native state she is a most attractive young person, of an engaging coyness. If you say: "Bonjour, Gabrielle!" she whispers: "B'jour M'sieur le Capitaine" or, "M'sieur le Caporal"; for she knows all badges of rank and hangs her head demurely. But presently, if you stand quite still and look the other way, Gabrielle will sidle up to you and squeeze your hand.
He drank vin ordinaire, smoked caporal cigarettes, made friends, and was in all as a savage or a much-travelled English gentleman. His uncle Ian had introduced him here as at other places of the kind, and, whatever his ulterior object was, had an artist's pleasure at seeing a layman enjoy the doings of Paris art life. Himself lived more luxuriously.
Caporal take care till you come back. By gar, I coot naut resist he vos so vairy moche gentilman and I vos so ongrie I go vis him not fife hunder yarts ah! bon Dieu how nice!
Others could but articulate a faint "Vive l'Empereur!" which in the intervals of pain they kept repeating, as though it were a charm against suffering; while one question met me every instant, "What says the Petit Caporal? Is he content with us?"
"'An' let's see oh, yes 'An anachronism, says the boss. 'Cigarettes was not made at the time when halberdiers was invented. "'The ones you sell was, says Sir Percival. 'Caporal wins from chronology by the length of a cork tip. So he gets 'em and lights one, and puts the box in his brass helmet, and goes back to patrolling the Rindslosh. "He made a big hit, 'specially with the ladies.
He sat down to his desk, took a meerschaum pipe from his pocket, selected a packet of caporal among several packets of tobacco which lay drying in a bowl, tore open the wrapper, filled his pipe and lit it. Then he began to write letters. Presently he ceased his work and sat thinking, with his attention fixed on a spot on his desk. He lifted a little stamp-box and examined it.
"It is interesting," said the Duke in a tone of lively enthusiasm. "These clues these tracks which cross one another each fact by degrees falling into its proper place extraordinarily interesting." He paused and took out his cigarette-case: "Will you have a cigarette?" he said. "Are they caporal?" said Guerchard. "No, Egyptians Mercedes." "Thank you," said Guerchard; and he took one.
"Is it perhaps Caporal?" said he, with a merry twinkle in his eye. "I don't know anything about military grades, but, if there were anything lower than a Caporal I should say it was the name of his tobacco." "Well," he said, "if he taught you to sing as you sing, il merite de la patrie."
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