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He turned to the Gypsy. "Will mademoiselle pardon me," he said. "Will you be long?" she asked. "Only a moment. I'll make it very short." "I'll wait," she said carelessly. He bowed to her and then faced me. "Has Monsieur le Coquin any particular spot in which he prefers to receive my point?" he asked. "None, my Lord," I answered; "I shall leave that to your own good taste."
Thereupon he shouted: 'I am the supreme chief of the army and am about to give you the order in writing, indited the behest and handed it to me. That is why he cannot prosecute me. I will show him up. Already now I tell you, so that all may hear, C'est un coquin, un misérable!" This narrative was published by M. Wesselitsky in the Novoye Vremya, November 6, 1915.
Only Villemet would have a parting shot, and as he retired, said, "If ever I meet that coquin outside these cursed walls, I'll horsewhip him black and blue." The man was making for Villemet, but his companions pulled him back. Within an hour Captain Martin had returned with a troop of yeomanry.
Douille signifies in Brittany, a girl, and coque means a cook's frying pan. From this word has come into France that of coquin a knave who eats, licks, laps, sucks, and fritters his money away, and gets into stews; is always in hot water, and eats up everything, leads an idle life, and doing this, becomes wicked, becomes poor, and that incites him to steal or beg.
"Nous vous demandons ce que vous avez fait de nos tresors et de notre liberte?" "We want to know what you have done with our treasure and our liberty?" President. "Citoyens, vous etes dans le sein de la Convention Nationale." "Citizens, I must remind you that you are in the presence of the National Convention." People. "Du pain, du pain, Coquin Qu'as tu fait de notre argent?
He had remained in his recumbent position for some time, when he at length heard a rustling in the grass, and the scout rejoined him. "The coquin has escaped us, monsieur," whispered the Canadian. "I wish that I had shot him, but by firing I should have discovered our position, and we should have had a score of arrows or bullets flying about our ears."
Mais toujours occupé de sa premier idée, il y revint brasquement: "Convenez en Mesdames, leur dit il, maintenant que la Fortune m'est contraire, on dit que je suis un coquin, un scelerat, un brigand. Mais savez vous ce que c'est que tout cela? J'ai voula mettre la France au dessus de l'Angleterre, et j'ai echoué dans ce projet."
Voyons, coquin, n'y-a-t-il pas par hasard une visiteuse de la partie." "Une 'Waistcoat' par example? de quarante ans environ, le drap un peu râpé . . ." "Qui se nomme Dorothée ce que veut dire le gilet dieudonné . . ." "Easy now!" the Orderly's voice remonstrated. "Easy, I tell you, ye born mill-clappers! There's a lady in the party, if that's what you're asking."
Grappling with Cambaceres, whom I knocked from his horse, and was about to despatch, I felt a lunge behind, which luckily was parried by my sabretache; a herculean grasp was at the next instant at my throat I was on the ground my prisoner had escaped, and a gigantic warrior in the uniform of a colonel of the regiment of Artois glaring over me with pointed sword. "Rends-toi, coquin!" said he.
In response the old man with grotesque solemnity drew his buckhorn handled knife, licked its blade and returned it to its sheath, a bit of pantomime well understood and keenly enjoyed by the onlooking creoles. "Putois! coquin!" they jeered, "goujat! poltron!"
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