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"Perfectly, Monsieur." "Has he been suspected at any time of being out of his mind?" "Never, Monsieur; he is a little noisy, but a very shrewd man." "What is a fellow to think?" I muttered, as I walked on. I was soon within sight of the lights of the Belle Etoile.
Youth, beauty, wealth, the humility of indigence and the pride of power, alike find their term revealed in the bright, silent course of the celestial spark; and still new signs succeed to provoke the sympathy or dazzle the philosophy of the observer. "Quelle est cette étoile qui file, Qui file, file, et disparait?"
From out of an evil, dirty countenance a pair of gloomy, bloodshot eyes scowled threateningly upon me. The man on the chair awoke at the same instant, and sat forward. "Eh bien?" said I to my friend on the hearth: "Will you stir yourself?" "For whom?" he growled. "Is not the Etoile as much for me as for you, whoever you may be?" "We have paid our lodging, pardieu!" swore he of the chair.
Germain had arrived at the Etoile d'Orient, and had been enquiring after me; an attenuated-looking bravo who was introduced to me as the Chevalier de la Perine, whom I recognized at the first glance as the fellow called Talvis, who had robbed the Prince-Bishop of Presburg, who had lent me a hundred Louis the same day, and with whom I had fought a duel at Paris.
The inn at Mansle, la Belle Etoile, had for its landlord one of those fat and burly men whom we fear we may find no more on our return; but who still, ten years after, are seen standing at their door with as much superfluous flesh as ever, in the same linen cap, the same apron, with the same knife, the same oiled hair, the same triple chin, all stereotyped by novel-writers from the immortal Cervantes to the immortal Walter Scott.
During this passage too, it was observed, that the Etoile still continued to take in water, notwithstanding the overhauling she had received. Some days were now occupied in the necessary preparations for leaving the Rio La Plata, such as stowing and caulking the Boudeuse, repairing the Etoile's boat, cutting grass for the live cattle on board, &c.
Early in the afternoon the French infantry after a heavy bombardment of the enemy lines pushed forward and gained a foothold in the Bois Étoile which was held by troops of Saxony. The Chaulnes garrison attempted to come to the support of the Saxons, but were driven back by the destructive fire from French batteries. Generals Marchand and Ste.
How wise he, Gerald Burton, was now showing himself to be in thus spending the short summer night out-of-doors, a la belle etoile, as the French so charmingly put it, instead of in some stuffy, perhaps not overclean, little room! But soon his mind swung back to the strange events of the past day! Already Nancy Dampier's personality held a strange, beckoning fascination for the young American.
He stood, therefore, as much as possible to the west, in order to keep the wind, and to get off the coast; and with a view to discover a greater space of the ocean, he directed the commander of the Etoile to go every morning southward as far from him as the weather would permit, keeping in sight, and to join, him in the evening, and follow in his wake at about half a league's distance.
The care of the host of the Belle Etoile, and his assistants, had raised the wounded hero of a hundred fights partly against the wall, and propped him at each side with portmanteaus and pillows, and poured a glass of brandy, which was duly placed to his account, into his big mouth, where, for the first time, such a godsend remained unswallowed.
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