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The colonel passed his head through the window and made a sign to the sergeant who commanded them. Montbar did not seem to notice anything; but after going some four or five hundred yards, he turned his head, while executing a symphony with his whip, and saw that the escort had started. "Wait, my babes!" said Montbar, "I'll make you see the country."
We paid Montbar, according to our agreement, gold to the value of sixty thousand English pounds, that being half the value of the gold obtained, with which he expressed himself well satisfied. "Honesty is, after all, the best policy," he said. "Had I not restored to you your ship I would have missed this treasure, that will well repay me for my long voyage, which I had before thought profitless.
"You wouldn't let me drink to the health of your mistress, but I hope you won't refuse to drink to mine." "Oh! that's never refused, especially with such wine. To the health of your mistress and her company." Thereupon citizen Antoine swallowed the crimson liquor, tasting and relishing it this time. "Hey!" exclaimed Montbar, "you're in too much of a hurry, my friend."
"Only let me tell you that I could do without a bed, for I am dropping with fatigue, but not without supper, for I am dying of hunger." "You shall have a good bed and an excellent supper." "Where must I go for them." "Follow me." "I'm ready." "Then come on. Good-night, gentlemen! Are you on watch, Montbar?" "Yes." "Then we can sleep in peace."
Montbar reached it first, and from a hiding-place known to him he took a flint, a steel, some tinder, matches, and a torch. The sparks flew, the tinder caught fire, the match cast a quivering bluish flame, to which succeeded the crackling, resinous flames of the torch. Three or four paths were then visible. Montbar took one without hesitation.
In order to obtain means to make war upon her enemy, Donna Isabel persuaded Hartog to embark upon a fresh adventure, which promised to provide the necessary funds to equip a frigate equal to that owned by Montbar, so that she might engage him upon equal terms.
You'll hear better if your glass is full than if it's empty." "Are you a doctor for deaf folk?" asked the postilion, banteringly. "No; but I've lived a good deal among drunkards," replied Montbar, filling Antoine's glass again. "A man is not a drunkard because he likes wine," said Antoine. "I agree with you, my good fellow," replied Montbar.
Montbar followed the song conscientiously through two verses, then, as the voice died away in the distance, he was obliged to forego the rest of the song, however interesting he may have found it. The next day, at five in the afternoon, Antoine, anxious, no doubt, not to be late, was in the courtyard of the Hotel de la Poste, harnessing the three horses which were to relay the mail-coach.
Ten carbines had been discharged at once into the narrow passage. By their light Montbar and his companions recognized the uniform of the gendarmes. "Fire!" cried Montbar in turn. Seven or eight shots answered the command. Again the darkness was illuminated. Two of the Companions of Jehu lay upon the ground, one killed outright, the other mortally wounded.
"Yes, it's here in the coach-house." "Haven't you horses to get you to the next stage?" "They are in the stable." "Haven't you each your passports." "We have each four." "Well, then?" "Well, we can't stop the diligence in a post-chaise. We don't put ourselves to too much inconvenience, but we don't take our ease in that way." "Well, and why not?" asked Montbar; "it would be original.
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