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He allowed two hundred bushels of wheat, three hogsheads of wine, wood in sufficient quantity, oats and barley in abundance, and three per cent on all receipts of income. Where the latter in Mademoiselle Laguerre's time had amounted to forty thousand francs, the general now, in 1818, in view of the purchases of land which Gaubertin had made for her, expected to receive at least sixty thousand.
Gaubertin himself saved Mademoiselle Laguerre's life during the Revolution, but it seemed to others that he was robbing her. She rewarded him in her will with a diamond worth ten thousand francs, which Madame Gaubertin now wears on her head." The general gave Sibilet another glance still more diplomatic than the first; but the steward seemed to take no notice of the challenge it expressed.
Of course, when it gets to Laguerre's I know all about it. I know the old rotting landing-wharf where Monsieur moors his boats, the one with the little seat is still there; and Lucette's big eyes are just as brown, and her hair just as black, and her stockings and slippers just as dainty on Sundays as when first I knew her.
I only know that when I get off at Woodlawn that City of the Silent it comes down from somewhere up above the railroad station, and that it "takes a header," as the boys say, under an old mill, abandoned long since, and then, like another idler, goes singing along through open meadows, and around big trees in clumps, their roots washed bare, and then over sandy stretches reflecting the flurries of yellow butterflies, and then around a great hill, and so on down to Laguerre's.
It was to hold an interview with the gentleman who represented the cause of the Comte de Paris that Boulanger was summoned from the conference going on at M. Laguerre's.
The challenge is 'Halt, who lives," he explained. "If it is a government soldier you must answer, 'The government. But if it's one of Laguerre's or Garcia's pickets you must say 'The revolution lives. And whatever else you do, hold up your hands." I rehearsed this at once, challenging myself several times, and giving the appropriate answers.
It never seemed strange to him that great rulers should have made a friend of a stray soldier of fortune, an Irish adventurer for Laguerre's mother was Irish; his father had been Colonel Laguerre, and once Military Governor of Algiers and given him their confidence.
But what really made Graham, and the rest of the Copan people, and the Isthmian crowd, who now were all working together against us, so anxious to get Fiske out of Honduras, was that part of Laguerre's proclamation in which he said he would force the Isthmian Line to pay its just debts. They were most anxious that Fiske should not learn from us the true version of that claim for back pay.
I wish I could say as much for Mr. Aiken." At that moment Aiken, being quite innocent, said even less for himself, and because he was innocent looked the trapped and convicted criminal. Laguerre's eyes glowed like two branding-irons. As he fixed them on Aiken's face one expected to see them leave a mark. "If the General will only listen," Aiken stammered. "If you will only give me a hearing, sir.
He and Nat were going up to Laguerre's, on the Bronx, to an old French cafe, where they often lunched and painted; that Nat had suggested just as he left the studio that it would be a good thing if Felix and that dear child Masie would go with them, and that they would go Saturday, which was to-morrow, if that would suit O'Day and Masie.
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