Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 10, 2025
The words were calm and careless, but they carried a weight with them that was not to be disputed. "Crache-au-nez-d'la-Mort" hung his head a little and went on unharnessing his Corporal in silence, contenting himself with muttering in his throat that it was true for all that, and the whole regiment knew it.
You see this is how it is," and the redoubtable, yellow-haired "Crache-au-nez-d'la-Mort" paused in the vigorous cleansing and brushing he was bestowing on his Corporal's uniform and stood at ease in his shirt and trousers; with his eloquence no way impeded by the brule-gueule that was always between his teeth.
With which the speaker, known to Algerian fame by the sobriquet of "Crache-au-nez-d'la-Mort," from the hair-breadth escapes and reckless razzias from which he had come out without a scratch, dropped on his knees and began to take off the trappings of his fellow-soldier, with as reverential a service as though he were a lord of the bedchamber serving a Louis Quatorze.
"Crache-au-nez-d'la-Mort" was in high popularity with his comrades; and had said but the truth when he averred that he had never been so happy as under the tricolor.
The Spahi was in fault. 'Crache-au-nez-d'la-Mort' was there before him; and was preferred by the girl; and women should be allowed something to do with choosing their lovers, that I think, though it is true they often take the worst man. They quarreled; the Spahi drew first; and then, pouf et passe! quick as thought, Rac lunged through him. He has always a most beautiful stroke.
"Ah, for God's sake, Mr. Cecil, don't talk like this!" The Chasseur gave a short, sharp shiver, and started at this name, as if a bullet had struck him. "Never say that again!" Rake, Algerian-christened "Crache-au-nez-d'la-Mort," stammered a contrite apology. "I never have done, sir not for never a year; but it wrung it out of me like you talking of wanting death in that way "
The audacious, irrepressible "Crache-au-nez-d'la-Mort," whom nothing could daunt and nothing could awe, looked penitent and ashamed as a chidden spaniel. "I know, sir. I have tried, many a year; but I thought, perhaps, as how his lordship's death " "No life and no death can make any difference to me, except the death that some day an Arbico's lunge will give me; and that is a long time coming."
He has done more than one bit of mischief only for that." "Only for what? He cannot be in love with the prison?" "It serves his turn," said Picpon mysteriously. "Did you never guess why, mon Caporal? Well, I have. 'Crache-au-nez-d'la-Mort' is a fine fearless soldier. The officers know it; the bureaus know it.
And I assure you you do me a great injustice if you think I would not as willingly go out under your orders as under those of all the Marshals of the Empire." The tears rushed into the hardy eyes of the redoubtable "Crache-au-nez-d'la-Mort," though he dashed them away in a fury of eloquence.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking