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'Tell truth, lad! Dannel Robson 'd niver have a call fra' thee if he hadn't a pretty daughter. 'Indeed, but he would, replied Charley, rather annoyed; 'when I've said a thing, I do it. I promised last night to go see him; besides, I like the old man. 'Well! when shall we tell mother yo're comin' whoam? 'Toward eight o'clock may-be sooner.
And him perhaps fighting against his own King now!" "Whatever hath coom to Dannel is all along of your own fault, I tell 'e." Captain Tugwell had scarcely enjoyed a long pipe since the night when he discharged his paternal duty, with so much vigour, and such sad results.
Marshal Augereau had a valet de chambre, named Pierre Dannel, a very intelligent boy, loyal, but inclined to be cheeky; and it so happened that while we were at Houssaye, Dannel, having spoken back to his master, had been given his notice.
'A may kiss my missus, a reckon, said Daniel, coming to a standstill as he passed near her. 'Oh, Dannel, Dannel! cried she, opening her arms wide to receive him. 'Dannel, Dannel, my man! and she shook with her crying, laying her head on his shoulder, as if he was all her stay and comfort.
'Now you must know that when we were in cantonments on the Vistula the marshal happened to send Dannel to Warsaw for provisions, and I commissioned him to get the trimming of black astrachan taken from my pelisse, and have it replaced by grey, this having recently been adopted by Prince Berthier's aides-de-camp, who set the fashion in the army.
A say, Hobbs, said he, raising his voice, 'is a' shut up for t' neet; for a'd be glad of a glass. A'm Dannel Robson, thou knows. Not one word in reply, any more than from the tomb; but his speech had been heard nevertheless. The crowd behind him began to jeer and to threaten; there was no longer any keeping down their voices, their rage, their terrible oaths.
Up to now, I was the only one of Augereau's officers who had grey astrachan. Dannel, who was present when the transport man made his display, quickly recognised my pelisse, which made him look more closely at the other effects of the alleged dead man. Among these he found my watch, which had belonged to my father and was marked with his cypher.
'A may kiss my missus, a reckon, said Daniel, coming to a standstill as he passed near her. 'Oh, Dannel, Dannel! cried she, opening her arms wide to receive him. 'Dannel, Dannel, my man! and she shook with her crying, laying her head on his shoulder, as if he was all her stay and comfort.
'No, Dannel, said his wife; 'thou'd best not. Thy leg has been paining thee this week past, and thou'rt not up to such a walk. I'll rouse Kester, and send him off, if thou think'st there's need on it. 'A'll noan ha' Kester roused. Who's to go afield betimes after t' sheep in t' morn, if he's ca'ed up to-neet? He'd miss t' lass, and find a public-house, a reckon, said Daniel, querulously.
An' Dorkis calls out to me, "Dannel," she calls an' I run out and carried the young miss in, an' she come roun' arter a hit, an' opened her eyes, and Dorkis got her to drink a spoonful o' rum-an'-water we've got some capital rum as we brought from the Cross Keys, and Dorkis won't let nobody drink it.
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