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Thus, on another occasion, in a fit of rage at having been baffled by the young Camisard leader, he dispatched a squadron of dragoons to Ribaute for the express purpose of pulling down the house in which Cavalier had been born! A befitting sequel to this sanguinary struggle at the Tower of Belliot was the fate of Guignon, the miller, who had betrayed the sleeping Camisards to Montrevel.
A lady soon begins to take her drawing-room ornaments en guignon if she has to dust them herself every day in a very dusty climate. I speak feelingly and with authority, for that is my case at this moment, and applies to every other part of the house as well. I must say I like Kafir servants in some respects.
Guignon professed the utmost contrition, besought the pardon of his brethren, and sought leave to embrace for the last time his two sons privates in the Camisard ranks. The two young men, however, refused the proffered embrace with a gesture of apparent disgust; and they looked on, the sad and stern spectators of the traitor's punishment.
Don't you remember quarreling with me the other day for doing so, Charley?" Charley's face of perplexity and disgust was irresistible. We all laughed. "What a guignon I have," he said. "Mr. Raymond, I believe you were in the robbery." "Not I," was the answer. "I was as much surprised as any one.
On their arrival at this place late at night, the Camisards partook of the supper which had been prepared for them by their purveyor on the occasion a miller of the neighbourhood, named Guignon whose fidelity was assured not only by his apparent piety, but by the circumstance that two of his sons belonged to Cavalier's band.
Then he could not, or would not, for years, get out of the "miscellaneous" style, or patchwork of styles reviews, short stories, burlesques, what not. His more important attempts seemed to have an attendant guignon.
He was poor, but his fund of good humor was inexhaustible. He soon reached his last sou, never his last burst of laughter. When adversity entered his doors, he saluted this old acquaintance cordially, he tapped all catastrophes on the stomach; he was familiar with fatality to the point of calling it by its nickname: "Good day, Guignon," he said to it.
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