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Their ponies whinnying like old friends, they met, by chance or appointment, before the power of sleep had lifted from eyes still new and strange against the morning. Sometimes Chantel the handsome rode glowering beside them, sometimes Gilly, erect and solid in the saddle, laid upon their talk all the weight of his honest, tired commonplaces.
After some discussion between General Gilly and General Grouchy, the capitulation was carried into effect. On the 16th April, at eight o'clock in the morning, the Duc d'Angouleme arrived at Cette, and went on board the Swedish vessel Scandinavia, which, taking advantage of a favourable wind, set sail the same day.
"Good for you!" said Heywood. "Now let him come, as the Lord Mayor said of the hare. What sport! With an even chance And what a load off one's mind!" He moved away to the window, as though searching for air. Instead of moonlight, without, there swam the blue mist of dawn. "Not a word must ever reach old Gilly," he mused. "Do you hear, Nesbit?"
"An ox was killed on the day I was born and on every one of my birthdays afterwards. The horns of the oxen are in two quarries outside. You must count them and tell me how much half of them amounts to and then I shall know my age." "That I'll do if you feed me and give me shelter," said Gilly of the Goatskin. "Eat as you like," said the Old Woman of Beare.
The three riders broke cover in time to see Mrs. Forrester, flushed and radiant, end some narrative with a droll pantomime. She stood laughing, the life and centre of a delighted group. "And Gilbert Forrester," she cried, turning archly on her husband, "said that wasn't funny!" Gilly tugged his gray moustache, in high good-nature.
Gradually the rats, silent and leaping, passed away into the darkness, as though they heard the summons of a Pied Piper. "It doesn't attack Europeans." Heywood still used that curious inflection. "Then my brother Julien is still alive," retorted Doctor Chantel, bitterly. "What do you think, Gilly?" persisted Heywood. His compatriot nodded in a meaningless way.
"And so have I," added Colonel Le Grice. Gilly sprang to his feet. For a moment he seemed disposed to brazen it out; then he read his sentence in the face of those who had detected and now judged him. There was no appeal: he was doomed. From henceforth he was socially and morally dead, and, without a word, he slunk away from the house.
Now when he rode up to the house, he had a pig's foot to his mouth and was eating. He got down off the bob-tailed, big-headed, spavined and spotted horse, and came in. "I heard there was a young fellow at your house and I want him to take service with me," said he to the Spae-Woman. "If the bargain is a good one I'll take service with you," said Gilly. "All right, my lad," said the Churl.
Meredith's valet stowed Samuel's clothing in the best bureau and asked, on departing, "hif there was hanything helse, Master Samuel?" Gilly cried out that the faculty had played him false. He felt like an irate frog in whose bowl has been put goldfish. "Good gosh!" he complained to his sympathetic contemporaries, "he's a damn stuck-up Willie.
His fancy is bold, and he makes no attempt to repress it. Perhaps his most striking poem is I am the Gilly of Christ strange that its reverence has been mistaken for sacrilege! And in the little song, Go, Ploughman, Plough, one tastes the joy of muscle, the revelation of the upturned earth, and the promise of beauty in fruition.
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