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Victor was inconsolable; the vicomte, thoughtful; and even the Comte d'Hérouville showed some interest. "What brought this on?" asked Nicot, when the Chevalier was stretched on his mattress. The vicomte glanced significantly at Victor. "He . . . The Chevalier has just passed through an extraordinary mental strain," Victor stammered. "Of what nature?" asked Nicot.
"And besides," said Nicot, naively, "you kicked my shin cruelly." "What! I thought it was the table-leg! It is my turn to apologise. You no longer crave my blood?" "No, Monsieur," sadly. Every one laughed. Maître le Borgne, wiped his perspiring forehead and waited for the orders which were likely to follow this amicable settlement of the dispute; and bewailed not unwisely.
"Indeed, Captain," said De Saumaise, smiling again, "that simplifies everything. You are one of the gentlemen whom I am come to seek." "Monsieur," said the choleric Nicot, "accept my apologies; but, nevertheless, I still adhere to the statement, that you smell badly of wet horses." He bowed. "And I accept the apology and confess to the impeachment."
"No, but they sell their crops of it to the Creoles, among whom smoking is a universal habit. It is said that the word tobacco comes from the name of the island of Tabago, where the Spaniards first discovered it. About the year 1560, it was introduced into France by Jean Nicot, who gave it his own name; for savants call this plant nicotian.
"Never mind what nature, Lieutenant," interrupted the vicomte. "It is enough that he has brain fever. The question is, can you bring him around?" Nicot eyed his patient critically. "It is splendid flesh, but he has been on a long debauch. I'll fetch my case and bleed him a bit." "Poor lad!" said Victor. "God knows, he has been through enough already. What if he should die?"
The door darkened again, and the Chevalier, Nicot, Father Chaumonot and four soldiers came in hurriedly. The Chevalier was first. With a cry he dropped beside Victor. "Lad, lad!" he cried in anguish. "Speak to me, lad!" He touched the poet's hands, and rose. Like an angry lion he faced the vicomte. "Ha!" said the vicomte, rousing from the numbness which was stealing away his senses. "So it is you?
Du Puys and Nicot saw that there was no slipshod work; for while the drilling was at present only for show and to maintain awe, the discipline would prove effective in time of need. Neither of these good soldiers had the faith in the Iroquois which made the Jesuit Fathers so trustful. Who could say that all this was not a huge trap, the lid of which might fall any day?
Bouchard glanced over his shoulder. Nicot was waving his arms and pointing to his vis-
It is in every way exceedingly valuable, and superior to that of Nicot, because instead of keeping to the plane of classic and Latin French, it showed an acquaintance with and mastery of the popular tongue as well as of the written and learned language. As a foreigner, Cotgrave is a little behind in his information. He is not aware of all the changes and novelties of the passing fashion.
Then taking out a short wooden pipe, he filled it with the coarse and bitter tobacco of Brazil, of which the leaves belong to that old "petun" introduced into France by Nicot, to whom we owe the popularization of the most productive and widespread of the solanaceae.
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