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"'Ah, bandit! And the King flung a sippet of toast after him as he added: 'I am hedged in with robbers. "'That is true, sire, I said gravely. "'You heard that at Créquy's last night. And there was a sharp note in Diane's voice. "'Oh yes; and much worse. "'Come, tell us! said the King. "'Sire, you will remember that Monsieur Joué and Monsieur d'Arbois are inveterate gossips.
Even the association of the name with the Indo-European root dru-, which we find in the Greek word drus, an oak, has been questioned by such a competent Celtic scholar as M. d'Arbois de Jubainville, but on this point it cannot be said that his criticism is conclusive.
Not so good as d'Arbois, nor so bad as Rochecorbon." But I had already attacked the fowl, and answered, with my mouth full: "Pierrebon, this is the best service you have ever rendered. Open the wine, and sit down and eat. Corbleu! but I will dub you knight, and you shall bear arms for this a trussed capon on a field vert."
An article by D'Arbois de Jubainville in the Revue des Eaux et Forets for April, 1869, ascribing the same action to the Pinus sylvestris, has excited much attention in Europe, and the facts stated by this writer constitute the strongest evidence known to me in support of the alleged influence of evergreen trees, as distinguished from the draining by downward conduction, which is a function exercised by all trees, under ordinary circumstances, in proportion to their penetration of a bibulous subsoil by tap or other descending roots.
If I were the good King Nebuchadnezzar, now, I might do very well; but as it is " And then I heard a chuckle, and saw Pierrebon fumbling with the valise. He cast a sly look at me, his blue eyes twinkling. "Monsieur is hungry?" "Famished." "And thirsty?" "Well, I have drank a little" and I glanced at the streamlet "but a cup of d'Arbois now, or even some white Rochecorbon, would be nectar.
The king thereupon let him go, and promised him some vin d'Arbois to set him right again. The present appearance of the town, as seen from the high level followed by the railway, scarcely recalls the time when Arbois was known as le jardin de noblesse, and Barbarossa dated thence his charters, or Jean Sans-peur held there the States of Burgundy.
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