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"The Marchese is here the gendarme told me he was in the mortuary chamber if he is not produced at once I will break your rascally neck " The man was protesting as fast and as loud as his assailant threatened him. "Eh! My good cousin!" cried San Giacinto, whose unmistakable voice at once made the prince desist from his attack and turn round. "Do not kill the fellow!
Christophe withdrew to the end of the compartment and hid behind the curtain and anxiously watched the platform on which a gendarme was standing motionless. The station master came out of his office with a telegram in his hand and went hurriedly up to the gendarme. Christophe had no doubt that it was about himself. He looked for a weapon. He had only a strong knife with two blades.
"Our first born," said Heineman with a wave of the hand. The streets were deserted. A thin ray of moonlight, bursting now and then through the heavy clouds, lit up low houses and roughly- cobbled streets and the flights of steps with rare dim lamps bracketed in house walls that led up to the Butte. There was a gendarme in front of the door of the Lapin Agile.
One man after the other had said good night, first the priest, then the gendarme, then the forester, then Mr. Schmielke. Jokisch, as a good neighbour, had stopped the longest with Mr. Tiralla.
There were caricatures of the students themselves, coarse witticisms fit to make a gendarme turn pale, epigrammatic sentences, addition sums, addresses, and so forth; while, above all else, written in big letters, and occupying the most prominent place, appeared this inscription: 'On the 7th of June, Gorfu declared that he didn't care a hang for Rome. Signed, Godemard.*
Great were the surprise and excitement in Guillestre when it became known that the principal sergeant of gendarmerie the very embodiment of law and order in the place had gone over and joined the "Momiers" with his wife and family. M. Laugier was quite a model gendarme.
But the brigadier was quite unmoved. "A minute," he said. "Let us wait until twelve o'clock, as he goes and dines there every day. I shall catch them with it under their noses." The gendarme smiled, pleased at his chief's idea, and Lecacheur also smiled now, for the affair of the shepherd struck him as very funny: deceived husbands are always amusing.
She would then contend that her father had done quite right to kill the gendarme, that the earth belongs to everybody, and that one has the right to fire a gun when and where one likes. Thereupon Silvere, in a grave voice, explained the law to her as he understood it, with strange commentaries which would have startled the whole magistracy of Plassans.
Any faintest sign of snobbery, for instance, would have been drummed out of the little mountain hamlet at once by Gygi, the gendarme, who spent more time in his fields and vineyards than in his uniform.
'So, sir, said the gendarme sergeant, as they walked down the passage, 'you did not seize the moment for escape. 'I never thought of it, said Berenger. 'I hope, sir, you will not be the worse for it, said the sergeant.
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