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I had looked more than once and eagerly at mademoiselle's window without any light or movement in that quarter rewarding my vigilance; but, undeterred by this, which might mean either that my plot was known, or that Mademoiselle de la Vire distrusted me, I set the ladder softly against the balcony, which was in deep shadow, and paused only to give Fresnoy his last instructions.
But when a couple of hundred yards had been covered Fresnoy had the ill-luck to blunder into some heavy ground, and this enabling his pursuer, who had time to avoid it, to get within two-score paces of him, the race became as exciting as I could wish. Slowly and surely Maignan, who had chosen the Cid, reduced the distance between them to a score of paces to fifteen to ten.
You had better have to do with all these together, I tell you, than touch Turenne's ewe-lambs, unless your aim be to be broken on the wheel! Mon Dieu, yes! 'I am much obliged to you for your advice, I said stiffly, 'but the die is cast. My mind is made up. On the other hand, if you are afraid, M. Fresnoy 'I am afraid; very much afraid, he answered frankly.
A beautiful picture of such a friendship among men of genius offers itself in the history of MIGNARD, the great French painter, and DU FRESNOY, the great critic of the art itself.
The order was scarcely given when a man one of those I had left on guard at the door of the courtyard came to tell me that Fresnoy desired to speak with me on behalf of M. de Bruhl. 'Where is he? I asked. 'At the inner door with a flag of truce, was the answer. 'Tell him, then, I said, without offering to move, 'that I will communicate with no one except his leader, M. de Bruhl.
Accordingly, as soon as it was light, having fed and groomed the Cid, which was always the first employment of my day, I set out in search of Fresnoy, and was presently lucky enough to find him taking his morning draught outside the 'Three Pigeons, a little inn not far from the north gate.
Those are the terms. 'But for me? he said anxiously. 'For you? The same as the others, I retorted. 'Or I will make a distinction for old acquaintance sake, M. Fresnoy; and if the ladies have aught to complain of, I will hang you first. He tried to bluster and hold out for a sum of money, or at least for his horse to be given up to him.
In the three days' operations the British had captured 700 prisoners, including eleven officers and a considerable number of guns and war material. May 14, 1917, was a successful day for the Germans when they captured Fresnoy. Early in the morning they succeeded by strong counterattacks in gaining a foothold in the British trenches northeast of the village.
Thereon Fresnoy was for taking the road at once, but having no mind to be followed, I gave the word to wait until the two were out of sight. I think, as we sat our horses in the rain, the holly-bush not being large enough to shelter us all, we were as sorry a band as ever set out to rescue a lady; nor was it without pain that I looked round and saw myself reduced to command such people.
Fresnoy calls colouring, which is one of the chief ornaments of painting, lena sororis, that which procures lovers and admirers to the more valuable excellences of the art. It appears to be the same right turn of mind which enables a man to acquire the truth, or the just idea of what is right in the ornaments, as in the more stable principles of art.
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