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The soldiers, who were reanimated and warm, had almost reformed their ranks, and an old franc-tireur who was following the litter, waiting for his turn to replace the first of his comrades who might give in, said to one of his neighbors, loud enough for me to hear: "'I am not a young man, now; but by Jove, there is nothing like a woman to make you feel queer from head to foot!
He was so kind and droll " She sobbed anew, clasping her hands and pressing them against her quivering mouth to check her grief. "Was it an execution, then?" demanded the gendarme in his growling voice. "They said he must be a franc-tireur to wear such a uniform " "Ah, the scoundrels! Ah, the assassins! And so they murdered him there under the tree?" "Ah, God! Yes!
"Before I started I provided myself with this, knowing the dangers of the journey," he replied. "Good, but don't use it, except in the last resort. Remember how near you came to execution as a franc-tireur." "Does Monsieur apprehend an attack?" "I scarcely know, Antoine. But things have come about too easily. We find here a furnished hotel waiting for us.
The soldiers, who had become cheerful and warm, had almost reformed their ranks, and an old 'franc-tireur' who was following the litter, waiting for his turn to replace the first of his comrades who might give out, said to one of his neighbors, loud enough for me to hear: "'I am not a young man now, but by , there is nothing like the women to put courage into you!
When they stayed in their houses they were burned along with the houses. I saw this done on September 7, 1914, at Melle. "The peasants shot from their houses at the advancing German army." I saw German atrocities. The peasants did not shoot. It is the old familiar formula of the franc-tireur.
At the announcement that he was a Franc-tireur, his reception was never cordial; but knowing that they were compelled by the government to sell provisions to this branch of the army, as a general thing they sullenly complied with the request. Vodry's good manners and pleasing address usually caused them to relent.
Half fearfully he stooped to arouse her. A footfall sounded on the dead leaves behind him, and a franc-tireur touched him on the shoulder. "What do you want?" asked Jack, in a voice that vibrated unpleasantly. There was a dangerous light in his eyes; his lips grew thinner and whiter.
I have a great weakness for the American girl, she always puts her heart in what she is about. When she flirts she does it conscientiously, and when she nurses a most uninviting-looking Zouave, or Franc-tireur, she does it equally conscientiously; besides, as a rule, she is pretty, a gift of nature which I am very far from undervaluing. November 16th.
As they hurried from the cave another franc-tireur came up, leading a riderless cavalry horse by one hand; in the other he held his rifle, the butt dripping with blood. "Silence," he motioned to them, pointing to the wooded ridge beyond. Jack looked intently at the cavalry horse. The schabraque was blue, edged with yellow; the saddle-cloth bore the number "11." "Uhlan?"
Under the laws of war we shot him on the spot. So you see probably the first shot fired in this war was fired at us by a franc-tireur.
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