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"No," she said, reflectively; "you are liberal enough, goodness knows too liberal but you are not a flat." Henderson was in the habit of dropping in at the Eschelles' occasionally, when he wanted to talk freely. He had no need to wear a mask with Carmen. Her moral sense was tolerant and elastic, and feminine sympathy of this sort is a grateful cushion.
"I have Trois Eschelles and Petit Andre with me," said he, "men so expert in their office that, out of three men, they would hang up one ere his two companions were aware. And we have all resolved to live or die with your Majesty, knowing we shall have as short breath to draw when you are gone, as ever fell to the lot of any of our patients.
I could consent almost to give my life for such a jerry come tumble, such a smart, tight, firm lad, who proposes to come from aloft with a grace, as an honest fellow should." "So that if you want a confessor " said Trois Eschelles. "Or a lire of wine " said his facetious companion. "Or a psalm " said Tragedy. "Or a song " said Comedy.
Trois Eschelles and Petit Andre were in an instant on foot, and Quentin observed that they had each, at the crupper and pommel of his saddle, a coil or two of ropes, which they hastily undid, and showed that, in fact, each coil formed a halter, with the fatal noose adjusted, ready for execution.
"Neither, my good, kind, and most expeditious friends," said the Bohemian. "I only pray to speak a few minutes with yonder Archer of the Scottish Guard." The executioners hesitated a moment; but Trois Eschelles, recollecting that Quentin Durward was believed, from various circumstances, to stand high in the favour of their master, King Louis, they resolved to permit the interview.
They were spoken of occasionally as "those Eschelles," but almost everybody went there, and perhaps enjoyed it all the more because there had been a shade of doubt about it. Margaret's coming was a good card for Carmen.
At first there had been some reluctance about recognizing the Eschelles fully, and there were still houses that exhibited a certain reserve towards them, but the example of going to this house set by the legations, the members of which enjoyed a chat with Miss Eschelle in the freedom of their own tongues and the freedom of her tongue, went far to break down this barrier.
I never knew one of these legerdemain fellows, who pass their lives, as one may say, in dancing upon a tight rope, but what they came at length to caper at the end of one tchick." "My only concern is," said Trois Eschelles, looking upwards, "that the poor creature must die without confession."
Lyon?" "He has come into his title. He is the Earl of Chisholm." "Dear me, how stupid in us not to have taken a sense of that! And the Eschelles do you know anything of the Eschelles?" "Yes; they are at their house in Newport." "Do you think there was anything between Miss Eschelle and Mr. Lyon? I saw her afterwards several times." "Not that I ever heard.
"It is enough that you have seen him intermeddle with the course of the King's justice, by attempting to recover an executed traitor," said the officer. "Trois Eschelles and Petit Andre, dispatch."
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