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Nevertheless, on the following day, poor Charles inquired where his brother Gustavus was; M. Dard, who was sitting near his bed, told him he was at school; but he discovered the cheat, and cried, weeping, that he wished a hat to go to school, and see if Gustavus was really living.
M. Dard had the kindness to go and purchase him one to quiet him, which, when he saw, he was satisfied, and waited till the morrow to go and see if his brother was at school. This young victim to misery dragged out his melancholy existence during two months; and about the end of October we had the misfortune of losing him also. This last blow plunged me into a gloomy melancholy.
"Sergeant, I did not miss a word," cried Dard, exulting. He thought he had passed a sort of military college examination. The sergeant was awe-struck and disgusted at his familiarity, speaking to him before the great: he pushed Private Dard hastily out of the presence, and bundled him into the trenches. "Are you countermined, then?" asked General Raimbaut.
Even this consolation was denied Private Dard. Corporal Coriolanus Gand, a bit of an infidel from Lyons, who sometimes amused himself with the Breton's superstition, told him with a grave face, that the splinter belonged not to him, but to the sutler, and, though so small, was doubtless a necessary part of his frame.
"No, don't put him out of heart, mademoiselle. Take another pull at the flask, Dard. If you please, ladies, I must have him home without delay." "Oh yes, but I want him to have a surgeon," cried Josephine. "And we have no horses nor people to send off as we used to have." "But you have me, mademoiselle," said Edouard tenderly. "Me, who would go to the world's end for you."
Edouard, aged twenty, and a male, did not comprehend this piece of feminine logic one bit: and, while he puzzled over it in silence, Jacintha went on to say that if she were to fill her egotist's paunch, she should never know whether he came to Beaurepaire for her, or himself. "Now, Dard," she added, "is no beauty, monsieur; why, he is three inches shorter than I am."
Let me feel his pulse." Whilst the old man was going stiffly down on one knee, Jacintha uttered a cry of terror. "See, see! his shirt! that red streak! Ah, ah! it is getting bigger and bigger:" and she turned faint in a moment, and would have fallen but for Dard. The doctor looked. "All the better," said he firmly. "I thought he was dead. His blood flows; then I will save him.
Edouard felt as it were a portcullis of ice come down between her and him. She courtesied and glided away. He bowed and stood frozen to the spot. He felt so lonely and so bitter, he must go to Jacintha for comfort. He took advantage of the ladies being with Dard, and marched boldly into the kitchen of Beaurepaire. "Well, I never," cried Jacintha. "But, after all, why not?"
They wore a costume unfamiliar to Gathon Dard little round caps with red and green streamers behind, and long, wide-sleeved white gowns and one of them had gold rings in his ears. "Nebu-hin-Abenoz?" one of them said, bowing. "We are three men of the Usasu cities.
They came together: their prominent faults of character rubbed: the secret that was in the house did its work: and altogether, they quarrelled. L'imprevu. Dard had been saying to Jacintha for ever so long, "When granny dies, I will marry you." Granny died. Dard took possession of her little property. Up came a glittering official, and turned him out; he was not her heir. Perrin, the notary, was.
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