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His Mexican marriage had not added to his prestige among the French. It was hinted that his lenient dealings with the empire and with Maximilian were due to the fact that the handsome property at San Cosme must be left behind in the event of his return to France; and even worse calumnies, too ill founded to mention, were circulated with regard to the selfishness of his policy.
Violent curés again donned their armour, children were baptised and mass was sung by cuirassed priests. The curé of St. Cosme seized a partisan, and with other fanatics of the League hastened to the Latin Quarter to raise the university.
Pierre and Cosme then rushed at Bluebeard. They found him, having disarmed the Chevalier de la Merlus, holding him down with his knee; they treacherously ran their swords through his body from behind, and continued to strike at him long after he had breathed his last. Bluebeard had no heirs. His wife remained mistress of his property.
The Dragoons had the reputation of being scamps, a scapegrace crowd, witness the song: "Mama, here the dragoons come, Let us haste away." But you might have searched in vain through His Majesty's two regiments of Dragoons for a bigger rake, a more accomplished sponger, or a viler rogue than Cosme de Lespoisset. Compared with him, his brother was an honest lad.
The magnificence that greeted us seemed a vision a glorious and dazzling hallucination more like the gilded brilliance of some enchanted palace than the interior of a Mexican gentleman's habitation. As we stood gazing with irresistible wonderment, Don Cosme opened a side-door, and called aloud, "Ninas, ninas, ven aca!"
"Goo'-night," he said, "Goo'-night. I'll go now." He swaggered out as though she had given him a rose. The barmaid put her hand beneath her apron and rubbed it. Cosme laughed a little at the quaint action. "Do they give you lots of trouble, Miss Arundel?" he asked her sympathetically. She looked at him. But her attitude was not so simple and friendly as it had been.
She spoke it like a sentry's challenge. The door opened and there stood Cosme Hilliard, hat in hand, his smiling Latin mouth showing the big white Saxon teeth. Sheila had not before quite realized his good looks. Now, all his lithe, long gracefulness was painted for her against a square of purple night.
Evidently her little conflict with Jim had jarred her humor. She looked distressed, angry. Cosme felt that, unfairly enough, she lumped him with The Enemy. He wondered pitifully if she had given The Enemy its name, if her experience had given her the knowledge of such names.
SAN COSME GARITA. At 3 P. M., that day, I received orders to join the siege train, and report to General Worth whose column was to attack the city by the San Cosme route.
The general's aides-de-camp had been put in charge, and all that unlimited funds and a large experience of such matters could accomplish was done to make the occasion the memorable feature of a memorable historic event. The great patio of the palace of San Cosme was floored and roofed over to serve as a ball-room.
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