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One of the horses thereupon was detached from the team for Maurice's use and made ready with one of the postillions' saddles; the other postillion had to climb up to the seat next to the coachman: all three men were feeling not a little shamed at the sorry rôle which they had just played, and they vowed revenge against the mysterious thieves who had sprung upon them unawares and in the dark, or Mordieu! they would have suffered severely for their impudence.
You come from Navarre's camp, from M. de Rosny!" "Aye. I have outwitted more than one man." "Mordieu! I was right to hate you!" Lucas laughed. Yeux-gris blazed out: "Traitor and thief! You stole the money. I said that from the first. You drove us from the house. How you and Grammont " "Came together? Very simple," Lucas answered with easy insolence.
"For supper; yes, let us sup " And Chicot made a fruitless effort to rise. "Ventre St. Gris! how quickly you get drunk. But go along, mordieu! she is getting impatient." "She, who?" "The lady I expect." "A lady; why did you not say, Henriquet? Ah! pardon, I thought I was speaking to the king of France. He has spoiled me, that good Henriquet. Ah! I will go." "You are a gentleman, Chicot.
"Well, mordieu!" cried the duke, "the young vicomte is right! What can he do here? He will go moldy with grief." Raoul blushed, and the excitable prince continued: "War is a distraction: we gain everything by it; we can only lose one thing by it life then so much the worse!" "That is to say, memory," said Raoul, eagerly; "and that is to say, so much the better!"
"Ah! yes, sire; you cry, 'my brother, but you do nothing against him; and yet it is clear to me that he is at the head of some plot." said Schomberg. "Eh, mordieu! that is what I was saying just before you came in, to these gentlemen, and they replied by shrugging their shoulders and turning their backs." "Not because you said there was a plot, sire, but because you do nothing to suppress it."
At the name, intelligence flashed over me, sudden and clear as last night's lightning-gleam. Yet this thing I seemed to see was so hideous, so horrible, that my mind recoiled from it. "Marcel," I stammered, shuddering, "Marcel " "Mordieu! what ails you? Is some one walking on your grave?" "Marcel, how is M. le Comte named?" "The Comte de Mar? Oh, do you mean his names in baptism?
"That is the trouble with all of you. You think more of the safety of your own skins than of accomplishing your work. Mordieu! where should I be to-day where would the Cause be if my first care was my own peril?" "Then that is where we differ, uncle," Lucas answered with a cold sneer.
He is, perhaps, the confessor of Phillip III." "You must go higher even than that." "Mordieu!" cried Colbert, who forgot himself so far as to swear in the presence of this great lady, of this old friend of the queen-mother. "He must then be the general of the Jesuits." "I believe you have guessed it at last," replied the duchesse.
"Sire, I was preoccupied." "With your pages, monsieur," said Chicot; "you ruin yourself in pages, and, par la mordieu, it is infringing our prerogatives." "How so? I beg your majesty to explain." "Cloth of gold for them, while you a gentleman, a colonel, a Clermont, almost a prince, wear simple black velvet."
But on this occasion he appeared moved by the Italian song, and twisted his moustache, which was always with him a sign of embarrassment and distress. He even omitted a rough sound something like a laugh, and said: "Pretty enough, 'mordieu! that recalls to my mind the siege of Casal; but be silent, little one. I have not yet heard the Abbe Quillet come. This troubles me.
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