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Updated: May 27, 2025
Vaudrey, who arrived before his colleagues, studiously contemplated the surroundings ironically. An estafette, a gendarme, arrived with a telegram; the usher signed a receipt for it. That was all the life that animated this silent palace.
The speeches done, the governor suggested that the national spirit be interpreted to him in pantomine. "They must be enlivened with alcohol or they will not move," said Guillitoue. "Mon dieu!" he replied. "It is the 'Folies Bergère' over again! Give them wine!" Bauda ordered Flag, the native gendarme, and Song of the Nightingale, a prisoner, to carry a demijohn of Bordeaux wine to the garden.
Thus talking we reached Entraygues. I allowed the gendarme to take me to the inn of his fancy, which he praised with true Southern warmth for its comfort and good cheer.
As a Protestant myself, I was well looked upon, and my acquaintance with history gained me further respect. For we had something not unlike a religious controversy at table, a gendarme and a merchant with whom I dined being both strangers to the place, and Catholics.
At that time she was only fifty-three years of age, and according to her lady's-maid, afterwards married to a gendarme named Soudry, "Madame was more beautiful than ever." My dear Nathan, Nature has no doubt her private reasons for treating women of this sort like spoiled children; excesses, instead of killing them, fatten them, preserve them, renew their youth.
Being answered in the negative he walked into the room where I was, and speedily by his appearance, removed any apprehensions I had felt as to my safety. Nothing could less resemble the tall port and sturdy bearing of a gendarme, than the diminutive and dwarfish individual before me.
They were selling flowers and fruit, all kinds of fruit cherries, strawberries, rosy-cheeked apples, luscious grapes all freshly picked and sparkling with dew. The gendarme said he had never seen any girls not in this particular square. Referring casually to the blood of saints and martyrs, he said he would like to see a few girls in that town worth looking at.
The pastry cook and his chere amie, the coiffeur and his grisette can spoon by the lake-side as long as the moonlight lasts, and longer if they list, with never a gendarme to say them nay, or a rude voice out of the depths hoarsely to declaim, "allez!"
The concierge broke in to explain: she had been much impressed by the style and title of the stranger. "If the gentleman had told me where he came from I would certainly never have allowed anyone to go for a gendarme." Inspector Juve smiled. "If I had told you who I was just now, madame, when you were, quite naturally, so upset, you would not have believed me. You would have continued to call out.
How relieved we were then! Before we had recovered from the shock of the shrill whistle so near us, we were landing in front of a large stone building. Once more we were under the command of the gendarme. We were ordered to go into a big room crowded with people, and wait till the name of our ship was called.
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