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"They were the Count and his friend when we drank a bottle of wine at Beauvais." "Now Citizens Mercier and Dubois," said Mercier, putting down the lantern. "And a bottle of wine will not harm us. It will keep the cold night out. There's a bottle in the cupboard, Dubois." Dubois got it out and drew the cork with evident relish. "Remember the last, Master Richard," Seth whispered.
He had made a last inspection of the rooms he had hired, satisfying himself that there was nothing left undone which it was in his power to do for her. Then he had gone to his own room and tried to read during the interval of waiting. His patience was strained to the limit when, at noon, Mercier and Dubois arrived alone. He had expected them long before.
At any rate, in some such colours as these, framed in such a halo, Claude Mercier saw the Free City as he walked its narrow streets that evening, seeking the "Bible and Hand". In some such colours had his father, bred under Calvin to the ministry, depicted it: and the young man, half French, half Vaudois, sought nothing better, set nothing higher, than to form a part of its life, and eventually to contribute to its fame.
"Mauclair is not to be found!" repeated Mercier, taken aback. "Well, what about his assistants?" "There's no Mauclair and no assistants! No one at the lights, I tell you! You can imagine," roared the stage-manager, "that that little girl must have been carried off by somebody else: she didn't run away by herself!
The above details are gathered from the narratives of Brebeuf, Le Mercier, and Lalemant, and letters, published and unpublished, of several other Jesuits. In another case, an Indian girl was carrying on her back a sick child, two months old. The Huron chiefs were summoned to a great council, to discuss the state of the nation.
Lodgings were scarce owing to the ball, and Mercier had waited for the villains, had taken them to a lodging next his own, nothing more than adjoining cocklofts, but with this advantage, that part of the woodwork dividing them could be easily removed. Here was the gold trinket, and glancing round to make certain no one was watching, Mercier had put it into her open hand.
Barrington let his horse walk but made no answer, and it was evident, by Seth's movement in his saddle, that he was prepared for attack. A mean house, not a light showing from any window, stood by the roadside. Mercier dismounted and bid his companions do the same.
"How else could he have started to ride to Beauvais with it?" said Lucien. "Truly, Jeanne, you seem as hard to convince as if you were really a market woman suspecting every purchaser of trying to get the better of her in a bargain." "Forgive me, but I have come through such a maze of deceit that full belief is difficult," she answered. "Have you no friend named Mercier?"
Nov. 5 Germans and Austrians proclaim new kingdom of Poland, of territory captured from Russia. Nov. 6 Submarine sinks British passenger steamer Arabia. Nov. 7 Cardinal Mercier protests against German deportation of Belgians; submarine sinks American steamer Columbian. Nov. 8 Russian army invades Transylvania, Hungary.
The only event which drew from him a protest a restrained and inoffensive remonstrance was the confinement to his palace for some days of my old friend and teacher, Cardinal Mercier! To the stories of fearful and widespread outrage, even when they were sternly authenticated, he was deaf. One knows why.
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