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In his left pocket there was a cosh and in his right a revolver. Stuck into his waistband was a knife. Before setting out, in the privacy of his den, he carried out a few exercises. He made a pass at the wall with his sword-stick, drew his revolver, flexed his muscles and then taking his identity papers he crossed the garden... steadily... unhurriedly... a l'Anglais.
The dry GAUCHE Englishman to use the French phrase, L'ANGLAIS EMPETRE is certainly a somewhat disagreeable person to meet at first. He looks as if he had swallowed a poker. He is shy himself, and the cause of shyness in others. He is stiff, not because he is proud, but because he is shy; and he cannot shake it off, even if he would.
* "Soyez sur que ces destructions se sont pour la plupart a l'instigation de nos ennemis quel triomphe pour l'Anglais si il eul pu ecraser notre commerce par l'aneantissement des arts dont la culture enrichit le sien."
Anon they came upon a group of soldiers who were standing somewhat perfunctorily and irresolutely close by the open gate of the Fort. "Tiens c'est l'Anglais!" said one. "Morbleu! he is on his way back to England," commented another lazily. The gates of Boulogne had been thrown open to everyone when the Angelus was rung and the cannon boomed.
He was greatly tickled to hear the peasants call his new abode "le chateau de l'Anglais," and to see them staring admiringly from the road at the windows, which were left open that paint and plaster might dry before we came to live in it.
"You are not afraid of the German shells, then?" he asked. "Monsieur," the old man answered, "one must live or die it does not matter which. For the rest, if one is to live, one must eat. Therefore I work. Four sons I have and a nephew away yonder," he added, waving his hand southwards. "That is why I dig alone. Why do you not send us more soldiers, Monsieur l'Anglais?"
She ran down to the gate, looked at Rupert, and gave a little scream of pleasure, leaping and clapping her hands. "I said so, monsieur. I always said so. 'When monsieur le marquis comes, mademoiselle, you be sure monsieur l'Anglais will come with him." "And what did mademoiselle used to say?" "Oh, she used to pretend she did not believe you would. But I knew better.
"`I must go to my room now, and make myself a little more comfortable; after that, Monsieur l'Anglais, I will speak to you. You are going over in the packet, I presume? "`I am, by to-morrow's packet. "`I shall put myself under your protection, for I am also going to London. "`I shall be most delighted. "`Au revoir.
And when M. Demolins speaks of L'Anglais, he means the American as much as the "Englishman of Britain." It is a convenient term and, so essentially one are they in his eyes, there is no need to distinguish between the peoples. Mr. When individual Englishmen and Americans are thrown together in strange parts of the world, they seldom fail to foregather as members of one race.
Ze material mus all ze same be remof." "I am an American citizen," interrupted Cabot, "and I forbid you to touch my property. If you do so I shall claim damages through the American government, and in the meantime I shall call on the British frigate now in this bay for protection." "For ze Americains I do not care," cried the Frenchman, assuming a theatrical attitude. "For l'Anglais, pouf!
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