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You will at least acquire the French language, and you will find that of no little use to you hereafter." Willy, accustomed to discipline and to breathe the air of passive obedience, submitted without raising any more objections. Debriseau joined, and they all three sallied forth to make arrangements for placing our hero "en pension," where they had been recommended.
He also stated, what was indeed true, that he had always evaded explaining to the boy the real nature of the service upon which the lugger was employed; from which it may be inferred that, notwithstanding McElvina's defence of smuggling in our former chapters, he was not quite so well convinced, in his own mind, of its propriety as he would have induced Debriseau to suppose.
"Oh! now I'm sure it's you," replied Seymour, laughing "that's your old trick do you not recollect the boy that Captain McElvina took off the wreck?" "Ah mon ami Seymour, I believe midshipman, I believe," cried Debriseau. "Est-ce donc vous? "And how is it that you have been on board of a French man-of-war?"
I'll pass through the Race but once more; then adieu to dark nights and south-west gales and huzza for a row of teeth, with the will, as well as the power, to bite. Sixteen long nines, my boy!" "Quick returns, though, quick returns, messmate," answered Debriseau, referring to the Cherbourg system of smuggling, which, being his own means of livelihood, he did not like to hear disparaged.
Captain McElvina had taken up the smuggling trade between Cherbourg and Portland to keep himself employed until a fine lugger of sixteen guns, the command of which had been promised to him, and which was intended to run between Havre and the coast of Ireland, should be ready; whereas Captain Debriseau had been all his life employed in the Cherbourg trade, and had no intention of quitting it.
The Quaker gentleman, who had placed me in the institution, and who was delighted with the successful results of his own penetration, selected me as his servant, and took me home." "Well, I'm glad you were so soon reformed," said Debriseau. "Where the devil's my handkerchief?" "Oh, I've not got it," answered McElvina, laughing. "But you are as much mistaken now as the Quaker was at that time.
Rainscourt, anxious to know the worst, descended to the library, where he found the parties before mentioned, accompanied by Debriseau and a legal gentleman. We shall not enter into details. To the dismay of Rainscourt, the identity of our hero was established beyond all doubt, and he felt convinced that eventually he should be forced to surrender up the property.
Debriseau was summoned to the magistrate, and having cleaned himself of the dust and gore, was immediately recognised. "Debriseau!" exclaimed McElvina, with astonishment, and a look of displeasure. "Even so, Captain McElvina," replied Debriseau haughtily; "you do not seem very well pleased at meeting an old acquaintance." "Captain Debriseau, will you do me the favour to step on one side with me.
With some forbearance, but with great judgment, the beauty of the prospect was not expatiated upon by the obsequious landlord. "It will do to smoke and eat in, Monsieur Picardon, and that is all that I require. Now bring pipes and tobacco, and take my message to Captain Debriseau." The latter gentlemen and the pipes were ushered in at the same moment.
Why, there's no harm in smuggling, if I recollect your arguments right," replied Debriseau, smiling. "Do you remember the night that you convinced me?" "I do, very well," said McElvina; "but I have reconsidered the subject, and I have one little remark to make, which will upset the whole theory, which is, that other people acting wrong cannot be urged as an excuse for our own conduct.
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