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In the meantime General Bourgain-Desfeuilles, commanding the brigade, had found quarters suited to his taste in the little farmhouse toward which the designs of Loubet and his companions were directed.
"Here, take it! the knife!" But Jean meantime had come hurrying up, desirous to prevent the mischief he saw brewing, losing his wits like the rest of them, indiscreetly speaking of putting them all in the guardhouse; whereon Loubet, with an ugly laugh, told him he must be a Prussian, since they had no longer any commanders, and the Prussians were the only ones who issued orders. "Nom de Dieu!"
Jean Charcot. In the course of his two expeditions of 1903 1905 and 1908 1910 he succeeded in opening up a large extent of the unknown continent. We owe to him a closer acquaintance with Alexander I. Land, and the discovery of Loubet, Fallières and Charcot Lands is also his work. His expeditions were splendidly equipped, and the scientific results were extraordinarily rich.
Loubet appeared in turn, advancing with a flourish and holding aloft in either hand a full bottle, which he waved above his head triumphantly. He was not so far gone as his companion; with his Parisian blague, imitating the nasal drawl of the coco-venders of the boulevards on a public holiday, he cried: "Here you are, nice and cool, nice and cool! Who'll have a drink?"
There was room for six, provided they were careful how they disposed of their legs. Loubet, by way of diverting his comrades and making them forget their hunger, had labored for some time to convince Lapoulle that there was to be a ration of poultry issued the next morning, but they were too sleepy to keep up the joke; they were snoring, and the Prussians might come, it was all one to them.
The place was protected from ordinary intrusion by high walls, but Rob descended within the enclosure and walked up to a man who was writing at a small table placed under the spreading branches of a large tree. "Is this President Loubet?" he inquired, with a bow. The gentleman looked up. "My servants were instructed to allow no one to disturb me," he said, speaking in excellent English.
"Come, now, corporal, you are a knowing old file," Chouteau tauntingly continued, "what have you got for us? Oh, it's not for myself I care; Loubet and I had a good breakfast; a lady gave it us. You were not at distribution, then?"
The only reasonable one among them was Loubet, who gave one of his pawky laughs and suggested that, being Frenchmen, they might as well dine off the Prussians as eat one another. For his part, he took no stock in fighting, either with fists or firearms, and alluding to the few hundred francs that he had earned as substitute, added: "And so, that was all they thought my hide was worth!
"Thunder and ouns! Quit that, will you!" yelled Jean, "and come and answer to your name." Lapoulle rose to his feet with a dazed look on his face, then appeared to grasp the situation and yelled: "Present!" in such stentorian tones that Loubet, pretending to be upset by the concussion, sank to the ground in a sitting posture.
As for the herds, no one had the faintest idea where they might be upon the crowded roads, and famine was staring the army in the face. Loubet stretched himself and plaintively replied: "Ah, fichtre, yes! No more roast goose for us now." The squad was out of sorts and sulky. Men couldn't be expected to be lively on an empty stomach.
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