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Jules Victor and his wife were seen, however, for only one day, busied about their usual household avocations, and then the returning travelers vanished once more to baffle the chatterers. "Diantre! Comme ils sont des voyageurs!" cried the coachman who took the wanderers to the Gare St. Lazare.
She announced that Madame de la Tour had been for many weeks confined to her bed by illness, and was, moreover, in great pecuniary distress. 'Diantre! exclaimed Derville, a quicker and stronger pulse than usual tinging his sallow cheek as he spoke. 'That is a pity. Who, then, has been minding the business for her?
I have said what I came to say, and you had best take warning. Come, father, you have stood this fellow's friend, and you have been wrong, but you know him now." Minette passed out through the door Arnold held open for her; her father and Arnold followed, and the four other men, without a word to Jean Diantre, went down the stairs after them, leaving him to himself.
"Diantre!" she muttered, as her hand wandered to the ever-beloved forms of the pistols within her sash. "Any of them would throw a draught of wine in his face, and lay him dead for me with a pass or two ten minutes after. Why don't I bid them? I have a mind " In that moment she could have shot him dead herself without a moment's thought.
"Ha! here comes news of some sort," said a voice I knew at once to be Murat's. "Well, sir, what is't?" "The Russian columns are in motion, Monsieur le Maréchal; the artillery moving rapidly towards our right." "Diantre! it's not much more than midnight! Davoust, shall we awake the Emperor?"
He keeps himself to himself, never attends meetings of any kind, and can hardly have made an enemy, while it is possible that I may have done so." Minette was thoughtful for some time, and when her father joined them and said that it was time to be off to a meeting, she asked him abruptly "Have you seen Jean Diantre to-day?" "Ay, I have seen him, and a pretty sight he is." "How is that, father?"
"Well, Pedro said we ought to take the money. The dead men could not spend it, he said, so it was foolish to leave it. But I would not touch it, not one piece. I wanted to burn the bones, and at last Pedro helped me. We picked them all up, the skulls and all. Diantre! it was bad work! I wanted to put them in the box, and burn all together, and bury the money.
I think I could make something out of him; but he wants all sorts of rum things last-century memoirs, out-of-the-way ones everything about Montaigne first editions Lord knows what! I say, Barbier, I dare say he'd buy your books. What'll you let me have them for? 'Diantre! Not for your heart's blood, my young man. It's like your impudence to ask. You could sell more if you knew more, you think?
"Never saw him thyself!" he cried, "And yet thou dost make the sign of the cross at the thought of him! Diantre! Patoux, thou art crazy!" "Maybe maybe," said Patoux mildly, they were walking together out of the cemetery by this time in the wake of the rapidly dispersing crowd, "But I have always taken my wife's word, and I take it now.
After going round to a restaurant and ordering meals to be sent in regularly, with some bottles of wine for Martin Dufaure's benefit, Cuthbert returned to Passy. Mary was greatly shocked upon hearing the tragic circumstances that had occurred at the wedding. "Who is the man that fired, Cuthbert?" "His name is Jean Diantre.
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