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"Here is prosper tee," laughed Lucien, holding up a half-pint bottle of vin rouge. "Yes," Burke retorted, "an' ye have four pound of cotton waste in the bottom o' that bucket to trow the grub t' the top. Begad, I'd vote for O'Bryan wid an empty pail er none at all before I'd be humbugged." "Un I," said Lucien, "would pour Messieur Rousveau vote if my baskett shall all the way up be cotton."
She went to open it, and from his seat by the hearth La Boulaye heard a gentle, mincing voice that was oddly familiar to him. "Madame," it said, "we are two poor, lost wayfarers, and we crave shelter for the night. We will pay you handsomely." "I am desolated that I have no room, Messieur," she answered, with courteous firmness. "Pardi!" interpolated another voice. "We need no room.
I had some hopes of the young King; but did Madame hear what he did when our deputies presented their petition to the States-General? He simply tore the paper, and said: 'Retire, Messieur. He deems despotism his right and duty, and will crush all resistance.
Then I would like to show Messieur Crapeau that some things can be done in America as well as others. Aug. 16. "Chalk a big mark for today," was one of the sayings of an old sportsman-friend of mine, when he had had unusually good luck come home thoroughly tired, but with satisfactory results of fish or birds. Well, to-day might warrant such a mark for me. Everything propitious from the start.
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