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Updated: June 16, 2025
"Vous avez passé ce diantre de Rhone," says Madame de Sevigné, "si fier, si orgueilleux, si turbulent; il faut le marier avec la Durance quand elle est en furie; ah le bon ménage!"
Jean Diantre was sitting with two or three of his mates in his attic over a small brazier of charcoal. They rose in surprise at the entrance of Minette and her father, followed by the American. The girl, without speaking, walked straight up to Jean. "I knew you were a miserable," she said, bitterly, "a drunken, worthless scamp, but until now I did not know you were a murderer.
Ah! he is a fine soldier, that Bel-a-faire-peur of yours. Why don't you give him a step two steps three steps? Diantre! It is not like France to leave him a Corporal!"
"What a great big " "Ta-ta!" laughed her brother. "Little yellow heels should keep out of sight," which was not meant in rudeness, but only, according to an Island saying, that little people should not express opinions on matters which don't concern them. Before he could say more, the door behind me swung open and a surprised voice cried "Diantre! What is this?
Never did a little damsel of the nursery array her doll with more delighted looks, and gaze upon her handiwork with more self-satisfaction, than did old Tronchon survey me, as, with the aid of a little gum, he decorated my lip with a stiff line of his iron red beard. "Diantre!" cried he, in ecstasy, "if thou ben't something like a man, after all.
"Diantre! It seems fated, then, that we are not to part company so easily; for hadst thou remained in Paris, lad, we had most probably never met again." "Ainsi je suis bien tombé, general," said I, punning upon my accident. He laughed heartily, less I suppose at the jest, which was a poor one, than at the cool impudence with which I uttered it; and then turning to one of the staff, said
All the men in the wine-shop crowded around them, and for a moment Miraudin, blinded by the blow, and the wine that had splashed up against his eyes, did not see who had struck him, but as he recovered from the sudden shock and stared at his opponent, he broke into a wild laugh. "Diantre! Ban soir, Monsieur le Marquis! Upon my life, there is something very strange in this!
You know what a business it is bringing a charge of any kind here, and Hartington having himself punished him pretty severely did not care for the trouble of carrying it further." The news was rapidly spread in the cabarets by the men who had been present at Minette's denunciation that Jean Diantre had endeavored to assassinate the American, and much indignation was excited.
Now mark me, Jean Diantre," and she moved a pace forward, so suddenly that the man started back, "you are a known assassin and poltroon. If at any time harm befalls Monsieur Dampierre I will stab you with my own hand. If you ever dare to speak to me again I will hold you up to the scorn of the women of the quarter. As it is, your comrades have heard how mean and cowardly a scoundrel you are.
"It is hardly worth while, Minette," Arnold said, when they reached the street, "the man has had his lesson." "I could not help it, dear," she said, in a voice so changed from that in which she had spoken to Jean Diantre, that no one would have recognized it as the same; "he had tried to kill you, to take you from me. He thought it was you who had struck him and hated you worse than ever.
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