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"Well, at least," cried Earl Douglas, "I will not have such brutes prowling about my castle of Thrieve even in my sister's dreams. Captain Sholto, do you station a man of your guard in the angle of the staircase where it looks along each corridor. Pick out your prettiest cross-bowmen, for it were not seemly that my guests should be disturbed by the rude shots and villanous reek of the fusil."
Our artillery lost its value, and we met them with fusil and caliver. They came on in a sort of echelon of four companies, close ordered, and not as a more skilly commander would make them, and the leading company took the right.
"Now," said he, "give me the jug or take the consequences." The other boat paddlers wanted to rescue him, but I menaced them with my fusil and the matter ended by the return of the jug. In 1753 he met his end at the hands of western Indians in the French interest, who shot him as he was helping to carry a battoe, and he was burried in the wilderness.
The old grenadier was afflicted by no such tender sentiments; and throwing aside all scruple, before his young masters could interfere to prevent him, he advanced a few paces forward, and discharged his fusil, broadside at the biggest of the bears. Whether he hit the bear or not, was not then known.
In advance of this delighted and merry crowd, and always like the lark, the first on the wing, the sportsman is already at his post, for the first day of the vendange is, as Navarre used to say, a day of powder, the fête du fusil.
My uncle had already been lamented, and the discovery of the nature of his death, so contrary to my forebodings, and of the safety of my girls, made the state of my mind partake more of exultation and joy than of grief or regret. But how was I deceived? Had not my fusil been found in the hands of an enemy? Whence could he have plundered it but from my own chamber?
The gaoler's son, a boy about my own age, who was sometimes employed to bring me food, seemed to look upon me with compassion; I had several opportunities of obliging him: his father often gave him long returns of the names of the prisoners, and various accounts, to copy into a large book; the young gentleman did not like this work; he was much fonder of exercising as a soldier with some boys in the neighbourhood, who were learning the national exercise; he frequently employed me to copy his lists for him, and this I performed to his satisfaction: but what completely won his heart was my mending the lock of his fusil.
"Two revolutions ago," she said and her mode of measuring time struck me as peculiar "my eldest son took a gun and went into politics." "Cojio un fusil y se metio en la politica" "took a gun and went into politics," the phrase is sadly expressive. Such campaigns were only too easily begun.
Even in this state I was not unmindful that my safety might require the precaution of being armed. Besides, the fusil which had been given me by Sarsefield, and which I had so unexpectedly recovered, had lost none of its value in my eyes. I hoped that it had escaped the search of the troop who had been here, and still lay below the bank in the spot where I had dropped it.
And THEY told of the existence of grandfather's second cache, or hiding-place, beneath this hearth, and were left for me to discover." He coolly relit his pipe, fixed his eyes on Marie without apparently paying attention to the breathless scrutiny of the others, and went on: "Flint, alias Pierre a Fusil, alias Gunn, died a maniac. I resolved to test the truth of his story. I came here.
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