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The last lines of an epitaph on one of these Pantomimic actors may be applied to many of them during their flourishing period: Toute sa vie il a fait rire; Il a fait pleurer a sa mort. Several of these admirable actors were literary men, who have written on their art, and shown that it was one.
"Ay, sir," replied a blithe young voice; and presently a handsome head of pure Saxon type, as indeed were both Bradford's and Carver's, appeared above the hatchway, and a strong young fellow swinging himself upon deck approached the governor, saying apologetically, "I was helping to get out the pinnace, and there is a mort of dust and dirt about her."
"Mort de Dieu!" cried Crillon, raising his hands in admiration. "How clever they are! Not a thing forgotten! Well, I will to the king and tell him. It will put him on his guard. If I had not contrived to try the draught there and then, I could not have convinced him; and if I had not by a lucky hazard won this young man last night, I might have whistled for one to try it! But I must go."
Here one great delight and refreshment to him was a visit to Mr. and Mrs. Mort at their beautiful home at Greenoaks. What a delight it must have been to find himself in a church built by his host himself!
First the white surplices of the clergy, amid the mourning drapery of the first five carriages; next, drawn by six black horses, veritable horses of Erebus, there advanced the funeral car, all beplumed, fringed and embroidered in silver, with big tears, heraldic coronets surmounting gigantic M's, prophetic initials which seemed those of Death himself, La Mort made a duchess decorated with the eight waving plumes.
The husband thereupon related his recent achievement, and concluded thus: "So, having kicked up a mort o' trouble, I doan't want to make no more see? An' I stepped here quiet to keep it out of the papers, an' just take what punishment's right an' vitty for marryin' a maid wi'out so much as by your leave. Now, then, caan't 'e do the rest?"
"Mort de Dieu! it is a droll gambling," murmured Chanrellon. "But if you win, do you think we shall let you go off to our enemies? Pas si bete, monsieur!" "Yes, you will," said the other quietly. "Men who knew what honor meant enough to redeem Rire-pour-tout's pledge of safety to the Bedouins, will not take advantage of an openly confessed and unarmed adversary."
Deep snows fell, and fierce blizzards shot like gunblasts from out of the Arctic. Snow and wind were not what brought the deeper gloom and fear to Fort MacPherson. La mort rouge, smallpox, the "red death," was galloping through the wilderness. Rumors were first verified by facts from the Dog Rib Indians. A quarter of them were down with the scourge of the Northland.
For Maurice, the whole endless hour was a seesaw between the past and the present, between his new dignity and his old irresponsibility. He tried at first with boisterous familiarity, then with ponderous condescension to draw his friends out. What would Eleanor think of them the idiots! And what would she think of him, for having such asinine friends? He hoped Mort was showing his brains to her!
In these operations they employed a fresh corps, the Twenty-second Reserve Corps, for the first time. After a lull lasting a few days the battle assumed an increasing violence on the left bank. In the afternoon of the 20th the Germans threw four divisions to the assault of Mort Homme. During the night and on the following day the battle raged with undiminished fury.
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