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"The sly old wolf!" thought Corentin, as the shining muzzle of the last gun disappeared in the bushes. "The Gars is done for. If Marie had only betrayed that damned marquis, she and I would have been united in the strongest of all bonds a vile deed. But she's mine, in any case." The twelve young men under Gudin soon reached the base of the rocks of Saint-Sulpice.
He would have preferred him dead, and the old trouble buried for ever, forgetting always that his death must have left something of a cloud on my life, though he always argued strongly against that view of the case. "I find it hard to swallow, mon gars, in spite of George Hamon's assurance," said my grandfather when we spoke of it. "I found it hard to believe.
"Well, mon gars, it is a long time since I saw you, and the town-gossip of Aubette tells me more of your affairs than you ever condescend to inform your cousin of. Your mother was different, Léon. Dame! I could never pass her door after your father died but she would stop my wagon and ask me for just five minutes' counsel.
"My friend," said Marche-a-Terre in a curt tone, "don't let that happen in your case, or I'll cut you in two like a turnip. As to the emissaries of the Gars, they all carry his glove, but since that affair at La Vivetiere the Grande Garce has added a green ribbon to it."
But she suddenly subdued herself into forced calmness, observing, like a trained actor, that the spectators were watching her. The commandant rose hastily and went out. Anxious and agitated, Mademoiselle de Verneuil followed him, stopped him in the corridor, and said, in an almost solemn tone: "Have you any good reason to suspect that young man of being the Gars?"
"Na, Peter; love gars a man luik up, no doon at his ain feet! It gars him fling his heid back, and set his een richt afore him no turn them in upo his ain inside! It maks a man straucht i' the back, strong i' the airm, and bauld i' the hert. Didna it you, Peter?" "Maybe it did; I dinna min' vera weel. But I see love can hardly be the thing that's amiss wi' the lad.
"The Chouans have never had a more cruel leader than the Gars, if we are to believe the stories about him," she said, addressing herself vaguely to both Francine and her mistress. "Oh, as for cruel, I don't believe that," said Mademoiselle de Verneuil; "he knows how to lie, but he seems rather credulous himself. The leader of a party ought not to be the plaything of others."
The harder tasks are all before you." "And you think I may hope for Carette, Aunt Jeanne?" "If you win her. But you'll have to stir yourself, mon gars." "I've sometimes wondered " I began doubtfully, and stopped, not knowing how she might take my questioning. "Well, what have you wondered?" and she peered at me with her head on one side like a robin's.
They say: 'Behold, the Blues have cast down altars, and killed priests, and murdered the king and queen; they mean to make the parish folk of Brittany Blues like themselves, and send them to fight in foreign lands, away from their churches, where they run the risk of dying without confession and going eternally to hell; and yet the gars of Marignay, whose churches they have burned, stand still with folded arms!
And Robert went on buying and selling and getting gain, all unaware of the pit he had digged for himself. One Sunday morning Mr Cupples was returning from church with Alec. "Ye likit the sermon the day, Mr Cupples." "What gars ye think that?" "I saw ye takin' notes a' the time." "Gleg-eed mole!" said Mr Cupples. "Luik at the notes as ye ca' them." "Eh! it's a sang!" exclaimed Alec with delight.
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