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Updated: June 14, 2025
"Percy! . . . Percy! . . . my husband!" she gasped, faint with the fulness of her joy. "Thank God! Thank God!" "La! m'dear," he rejoined good-humouredly, "we will both do that anon, an you think you can loosen these demmed ropes, and release me from my inelegant attitude."
But already Blakeney, good-humoured as ever, had joined in the laugh against himself. "Demmed smart that now, wasn't it?" he said, turning pleasantly to the Vicomte. "Clever woman my wife, sir. . . . You will find THAT out if you live long enough in England." "Sir Percy is right, Vicomte," here interposed Lord Antony, laying a friendly hand on the young Frenchman's shoulder.
Sir Percy deposited his large person in the capacious depths of a creaky chair, stretched his long limbs out before him, and said quietly: "I am only staying in this demmed hole until the moment when I can drag you out of this murderous city." Deroulede shook his head. "You'd best go back to England, then," he said, "for I'll never leave Paris now."
Twelve twelves, close on a hundred and fifty pieces, sergeant, and all for a few words, my friend, all for a few words. I did but send my wife, a demmed handsome woman, mark you, and dresses in the mode, to my good friend the secretary to ask for some rebels. "How many?" says he. "A dozen will do," says she. It was all done in a penstroke.
I've tried it hundreds of times, and it has always ended the same way. I have to break a cockney's neck before I can convince him that I know the way I want things done, and they have to be done that way. He is so sure I am 'ownley a demmed ke-lo-neal' that he is lecturing me on how I should do things before he is in my establishment ten minutes. I don't know what it is.
"Just in ten words, Blakeney," he urged entreatingly; "how did you actually get the boy away?" Sir Percy laughed despite himself at the young man's eagerness. "Next time we meet, Tony," he begged; "I am so demmed fatigued, and there's this beastly rain " "No, no now! while Hastings sees to the horses. I could not exist long without knowing, and we are well sheltered from the rain under this tree."
"Demmed uncomfortable things, duels, ain't they, Tony?"
But, I say, come by the fire . . . it's getting demmed cold." He kicked the fire with the heel of his boot, making the logs blaze in the old hearth. He seemed in no hurry to go, and apparently was quite unconscious of his immediate danger.
"It will be, sir... it will be... for I am not drunk, I assure you.... and can write with a steady hand... and do honour to my signature...." "When will you have the letter ready, Sir Percy?" "The 'Day-Dream' must leave the harbour at the turn of the tide," quoth Sir Percy thickly. "It'll be demmed well time by then... won't it, sir?..." "About sundown, Sir Percy... not later..."
These three things make me think that a certain section of hot-headed Republicans with yourself, my dear Deroulede, en tete, are about to attempt the most stupid, senseless, purposeless thing that was ever concocted by the excitable brain of a demmed Frenchman." Deroulede smiled.
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