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"That is where the fun comes in." "Bon Gyu, but that kind of fun does not please me! Some of you will find yourselves at the bottom some day, and that will end the riding in Sercq." "It's safe enough if you have a firm hand that is, if you know how to ride at all," a shot aimed at me, but which failed to wound.
And he's rich, or he will be, though, for me, I would not care what money a man had if the devil had his claw in it, mon Gyu, no! But there you are, mon gars. There is he with all that, and here are you with nothing but just your honest face and your good heart and your two strong arms. And what I want to know is what are you going to do about it?" "What would you do if you were me, Aunt Jeanne?"
No, dear, he is not here. Why " "Did he not get here last night?" she jerked sharply. "No. No one. I was hoping " But she had sunk down against the great stones of the shelter, with her hands before her face. "Mon Gyu, mon Gyu! Then he is dead! Oh, my poor one! My dear one!" "Nance! Nance! What is it all, dearest? Did Bernel try to come across last night " "Yes, yes! He would come.
Quick!" ordered the Sénéchal. "And a blanket and a rope and get ready a bed for a wounded man. Come you with me and help!" "Mais, mon Gyu !" began the man. "We've killed the devil, and the Doctor's down there with him " "But we don't want him here, M. le Sénéchal," quavered a woman's voice, in terror. "Fools! It's Mr. Gard that is hurt.
"One two three four five six," counted the boy, "and each one as big as herself." Every now and again came the sullen boom of her guns and answering booms from her pursuers. "Six to one!" breathed the boy, quivering like a pointer. "And she's terrible near the rocks. Bon Gyu! but she'll be on them! She'll be on them sure," and he jumped up and danced in his excitement.
We landed on the other side, and scrambled up a deuce of a cliff, and got to the tunnel there just in the nick of time. Young Carré here was fighting a dozen of them and a carronade single-handed." "Bon Gyu, Phil! We're well through with it. I oughtn't to have let you go alone, but you were gone before I knew, and we had all we could manage here.
"Mon Gyu!" gasped Judi, and we waved our hands and rode on, leaving them gaping. Then it would be "Mon Gyu! That's all right! Here are Charles Hamon and Nancy Godfray come together at last. And high time too! They've been beating about the bush till we're all tired of watching them. B'jou, Nancy! B'jou, Charles! All joy to you!"
"Mon Gyu!" gasped Nance to herself, and went in wondering. "She and Tom wanted me to take my old room again, and I refused," was all he said. "Tom wanted you to go there?" said Mrs. Hamon in amazement. "So she said." Grannie's disparaging sniff was charged with libel. "Well?" asked Tom of his wife, when he came in later on with Peter Mauger, who had come over for supper. "Got your lodger?" "No."
And now ! Mon Gyu, yes I wish the sea would break in through their nasty tunnels and wash them all away pumps and engines and houses everything!" And up on the hillside at the head of the gulf the great pumping-engine clacked monotonously "Never! Never! Never!" "You've got it bad to-day, Nan," said the boy. "I've always got it bad. It makes me sick.
And I told her more fully than I had done of all that had happened to me on Herm, and on the French ship in the West Indies, and at Amperdoo, and of our escape into France in the preventive officers' boat, and of that last desperate pull across from Surtainville. "But, mon Gyu, Phil, what a strange man!" she said of Torode.
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