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Updated: June 13, 2025
"And you do not know who this man really was?" "No probably also a marabout, a kind of juggler or sorcerer." "Did you acquaint your superiors of this sorcerer?" asked the count after a while. "No," replied Coucou, rather hesitatingly. "Then I am surprised that you acquaint me of this," said Monte-Cristo, while he threw a penetrating glance at the Zouave.
Among the few who escaped was the Sheik Sidi ben Abed. No one knew where he had disappeared to, and when the call to retreat had been sounded, Coucou declared he would remain behind to find out where the Kabyles were. "They will kill you," his comrades warned him. "Bah! a Parisian child does not fear the devil!" said Coucou, laughing. In a few minutes he had disappeared.
But his notebook only contains statements of facts, and we have to turn to his correspondence for more details. "Decidedly," he wrote on June 17 to his sister Odette, "the Boches have quite a special affection for me, and the parts of my 'coucou' serve me for a calendar. Yesterday we flew over Chauny, Tergnier, Laon, Coucy, Soissons.
"I know it, Monsieur Beauchamp," replied the count, reluctantly; "Benedetto is the embodiment of evil principles Satan in person! But one day I shall stretch out my hand and order him to stop even if I have to go to the corners of the world to find him, he will not escape me." "To that I respond amen. As to the Jackal Coucou, take him quietly with you.
Often in summer, the "four-wheel-coach," and the coucou journeyed together, carrying between them thirty-two passengers, though Pierrotin was only paying a tax on six. On these specially lucky days the convoy started from the faubourg Saint-Denis at half-past four o'clock in the afternoon, and arrived gallantly at Isle-Adam by ten at night.
Outside the wood, waiting in long rows, were the peasants' vehicles, called "coffee-mills," completely answering ho the couricolo of the Neapolitan and the coucou of the Parisian, equally cheap, and overladen in the same manner with passengers, therefore forming highly picturesque groups. This scene has been humorously treated in a picture by Marstrand.
The too devoted mother explained succinctly the adventure of her poor Oscar in Pierrotin's coucou. "I am certain," said Godeschal, "that that blagueur is preparing some trick against us for this evening. As for me, I can't go to the Marquise de las Florentinas' party, for my sister wants me to draw up the terms of her new engagement; I shall have to leave after the dessert.
"I cannot help you; but now tell me plainly whether you can render me any assistance in finding the captain?" "A thousand times, marshal, or as otherwise your title may be. You see, sir, I am a man of few words, but if you demand my heart's blood, it is at your service the Jackal Coucou always keeps his word." Monte-Cristo smiled the man suited him.
I was called to the count at two o'clock this morning, and after I had received the letter, I went away." "Without asking any questions?" "Oh, vicomte, no one asks the Count of Monte-Cristo for a reason," cried Coucou, vivaciously. "I am not a coward, but " "I know you possess courage," replied the young man. "Sapristi there, now, I have allowed myself to go again.
"With that we need not make any haste," said Monte-Cristo, smiling. "You believe then that Captain Joliette is still alive?" "Yes, colonel." "I am no colonel," said the count. "Then I must say general?" "That is unnecessary I am in no way a soldier." "But that is hardly possible," cried Coucou, disappointed; "such a nice brave gentleman, and not a soldier?"
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