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"Ma foi!*" said he, "I shall not go. Your company is better than his." *Upon my word! And while poking fun at the show, Rodolphe, to move about more easily, showed the gendarme his blue card, and even stopped now and then in front of some fine beast, which Madame Bovary did not at all admire.
They offered O'Brien twenty, thirty, forty Napoleons, if he would hush it up, for they were aware of the penalty and imprisonment. O'Brien replied that he would not accept of any money in compromise of his duty; that after he had given me into the charge of the gendarme of the next post, his business was at an end, and he must return to Flushing, where he was stationed.
And the sexton leaned over to the magistrate and said: "Why do you allow the Cinderella to make such an outcry? Ring for the gendarme and have him shut her up in the madhouse." But the magistrate only smiled, and explained that the community had rid itself of all burdens that could ever accrue to it through Damie by paying the greater part of his passage money.
Jacques Collin's last escape, one of his finest inventions for he had got out disguised as a gendarme leading Theodore Calvi as he was, a convict called before the commissary of police had been effected in the seaport of Rochefort, where the convicts die by dozens, and where, it was hoped, these two dangerous rascals would have ended their days.
As soon as the situation clarified itself he hurried down to his visitors with a polite roar of apology and rescued them from the gendarme, and led them up to his room and forced them into arm-chairs with a rapidity of reparation which did not exhaust itself till he had entreated them with every circumstance of civility to excuse an incident so mortifying to him.
Not much sleep that night, a sort of feverish coma instead: wild dreams in which I and the gendarme were attacking a German trench, the officer in charge of which we found to be the Base Camp Adjutant after all. However, I got up early packed my few belongings in my valise, which had mysteriously turned up from the docks, and went off on the tram down to Havre.
He has been in prison, too, and he bellows insults at his elders and betters when they pass him on the stairs. He is a man of no soul!" "Yes," said Rufin. "But did you say he had been in prison?" "I did," affirmed Musard. "Ask anyone. It is not that I abuse him; he is, in fact, a criminal. Once he threw an egg at a gendarme.
Several of the big girls stood very straight and looked proud. Bonne Justine stood at one end of the table. She looked sad and bent her head. Bonne Néron, who looked like a gendarme, walked up and down in the middle of the refectory. Now and then she looked at the clock, and shrugged her shoulders. Sister Marie-Aimée came in, leaving the door open behind her.
"You are right," replied the gendarme, pleased with the compliment to his nation; "I wish you success, you will deserve it; but " and he shook his head. "If I could obtain a plan of the fortress," said O'Brien, "I would give five Napoleons for one;" and he looked at the gendarme. "I cannot see any objection to an officer, although a prisoner, studying fortification," replied the gendarme.
For Rosebud's and our amusement, the gendarme now set a musical-box a-going; and as it played a pasteboard figure of a dentist began to pull the tooth of a pasteboard patient, lifting the wretched simulacrum entirely from the ground, and keeping him in this horrible torture for half an hour.
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