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Near the grille, on the side next the bridge, the men who conducted me asked whither I wished to go. Upon my inquiring, in my turn, whether they were at liberty to take me wherever I might wish to go, one of them, a Marseillais, asked me, giving me at the same time a push with the butt end of his musket, whether I still doubted the power of the people?
"Every Marseillais who aspires to the character of a keen sportsman, has what is termed a poste
In the main, Thiers was an upholder of the Orleans dynasty, yet his devotion to constitutional principles, the ardour of his Southern temperament, he was a Marseillais by birth, and the vivacious egotism that never brooked contradiction, often caused sharp friction with the King and the King's friends. He seemed born for opposition and criticism.
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.
Both fleets are divided, scattered; the Caesar, a 74 gun ship, is lost; the Marseillais, of the same size, loses her masts, and after that accident is obliged to send back an enemy's ship of 64; the Languedoc having lost her masts, unable to be governed and make any motions, separated from the others, is attacked by a ship of the line against which she could only bring six guns.
The prettiest girls, French, Spanish, and Algerian-born, all condescended to glance at the bleu who had "knocked out" the former champion of the Legion, and, taking his place in the match with the Marseillais, had kept the championship for the First Regiment Etrangére. But the Legion was proud of St. George.
At each new arrival, I heard the Nabob, who stood near the door, exclaim in consternation with the hoarse voice of a Marseillais with a cold in his head: "Alone?" The guest would apologize in an undertone. M-m-m-m-m-m his wife not very well. Very sorry indeed. Then another would come; and the same question would bring the same reply.
Just as they arrived there twenty-four persons, of whom twenty-two were priests, were brought out from the prison of the Maine by a party of Marseillais, who shouted, "To the Abbaye!" These ruffians pushed the prisoners into coaches standing at the door, shouting: "You will not arrive at the prison; the people are waiting to tear you in pieces." But the people looked on silently in sullen apathy.
"At a price, to be sure." The man with the beard spread out his hands in a beautiful and eloquent gesture which well accompanied his Marseillais accent. "Ah, as to that!" he protested. "My circumstances I am poor, Monsieur. One must gain the livelihood. What would you? A trifle. The merest trifle." "Where is Arthur Benham?" asked Ste. Marie. "In Marseilles, Monsieur. I saw him a week ago six days.
Clemenceau was listening in courtesy to this argument, and the false Marseillais did not lose a word or a sip of his Kirschwasser. "Afterward, when my ideas changed, and I could make my way to fortune by a thoroughfare, less under the public eye, I associated her in my studies.
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