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"Monsieur Louet threw himself back in his chair and looked at us all, one after the other, as if he had only just become aware of our presence, accompanying his inspection with a smile of the most perfect benevolence; then, heaving a gentle sigh of satisfaction 'Ma foi! I have made a capital supper! exclaimed he. "'M. Louet! A cigar? cried Méry: 'It is good for the digestion.
"'I shall be most happy, replied M. Louet graciously, 'if you think it will amuse the company. "'To be sure it will, cried Méry. 'Gentlemen, you are going to hear the account of one of the most extraordinary hunts that has taken place since the days of Nimrod the mighty hunter. I have heard it told twenty times, and each time with increased pleasure. Another glass of punch, M. Louet. There!
Thanks to a storm, the six English men of war manage to escape from the brig, and when M. Louet ventures to re-appear upon deck, he finds himself in the Italian port of Piombino, opposite the island of Elba. He has had enough of the water, and goes on shore, where he bargains with a vetturino to take him to Florence.
It was obvious that we should be required to give it over for the use of some officer of the invading army, and the matter was naturally not without interest. Early in the morning of June 5, a carriage drove up, and some middle-aged officers of the administration, in green-and-silver uniforms, applied for quarters. One of them was the paymaster-in-chief of the army, M. Ernest Louet.
I have spoken. And he recommenced puffing at his cigar. "'Where was I? said M. Louet, who had lost the threat of his narrative through this interruption. "'Speeding over hill and dale in pursuit of your thrush. "'True, sir. I cannot describe to you the state of excitement and irritation I was in.
"'M. Louet would not be so unkind as to deprive us of his society, said the French officer with a polite bow. I turned to thank him for his civility. It was the lieutenant. It put me in mind of the changes in a pantomime. "'Al suo commodo, said a powdered lackey, opening the folding doors of a magnificent dining-room. The captain offered his hand to Mademoiselle Zephyrine.
"'Will you come with us, my dear M. Louet? said Mademoiselle Zephyrine. "'Thank you, replied I; 'I am not accustomed to ride. I would rather have a day's shooting. "'I will keep M. Louet company, said the lieutenant. "On retiring to my apartment that night, I found my fowling-piece in one corner, my game-bag in another, and my hundred crowns on the chimney-piece.
"'I thought the family of Beaumanoir had been extinct. "'Very possible. I revive it, that's all. "'You are perfectly at liberty to do so, sir, replied I. 'I beg pardon for the observation. "'Granted, granted, my dear Louet. Would you like a dog, or not? "'Sir, I prefer shooting without a dog. The last I had insulted me most cruelly, and I should not like the same thing to occur again.
Now begin. We are all impatience. "'You are aware, gentlemen, said M. Louet, 'that every Marseillais is born a sportsman. "'Perfectly true, interrupted Méry 'it is a physiological phenomenon which I have never been able to explain; but it is nevertheless quite true.
* M. Louet, after the Franco-Prussian war, visited Marshal Bazaine in his Spanish retreat, and obtained from him all the documents relating to the intervention and the empire of Maximilian then in his possession. It was his intention to use them as the basis for an authentic history, which, however, he did not live to publish.
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