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Updated: May 22, 2025
"Despardieux c'dtoit un homme superbe! With one tistle-head, and a nettle or two, he could make a soupe for twenty guests an haunch of a little puppy-dog made a roti des plus excellens; but his coupe de maitre was when the rendition what you call the surrender, took place and appened; and then, dieu me damme, he made out of the hind quarter of one salted horse, forty-five couverts; that the English and Scottish officers and nobility, who had the honour to dine with Monseigneur upon the rendition, could not tell what the devil any of them were made upon at all.
But Thomas de Vaux was no courtier; the phrase which had offered had risen spontaneously to his lips, and he knew not how to pursue the pleasing theme so as to soothe and prolong the vein which he had excited. He was silent, therefore, until, relapsing into his moody contemplations, the King demanded of him sharply, "Despardieux!
But necessity, according to the ancient proverb, sharpens invention, and he muttered something under his cowl concerning the men in question being excommunicated outlaws both to church and to kingdom. "'Despardieux'," answered Front-de-Boeuf, "thou hast spoken the very truth I forgot that the knaves can strip a fat abbot, as well as if they had been born south of yonder salt channel.
"What wouldst thou have of me," said Rebecca, "if not my wealth? We can have nought in common between us you are a Christian I am a Jewess. Our union were contrary to the laws, alike of the church and the synagogue." "It were so, indeed," replied the Templar, laughing; "wed with a Jewess? 'Despardieux! Not if she were the Queen of Sheba!
"Despardieux, milor," said the Chevalier, "if he had stayed one moment, he should have had a torchon what you call a dishclout, pinned to him for a piece of shroud, to show he be de ghost of one grand fanfaron."
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