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Eh, well, Chevalier, let us go and play dominoes with Monsieur Nicot." "All this is strangely fortunate for you two gentlemen," said D'Hérouville, as they moved toward the fort. "Or for you, Monsieur d'Hérouville," the vicomte sent back. Three days trickled through the waist of the glass of time.
"He is seasick?" turning anxiously toward the vicomte. "This is not seasickness; more likely a reaction. Here comes Lieutenant Nicot, who has some fame as a leech. He will tell us what the trouble is." A hasty examination disclosed that the Chevalier was in the first stages of brain fever, and he was at once conveyed to his berthroom.
Joseph was attracted by the cries, saw the murderer arrested, and after the police were gone stayed there in the street, talking and jabbering. The Saturday before, Joseph had a game of billiards with the murderer." "With the murderer!" "Oh! accidentally he knew him by sight, went to the same café, that's all, and they had played at pool together, Joseph and the murderer a man named Nicot.
The trees were merging together; the lake was red and blurred. "Gabrielle, Gabrielle, I loved you after my own fashion! . . . The devil take that grey cloak!" And the vicomte's lawless soul went forth. The men took the three bodies and placed them in the canoes. They were somewhat rough with the vicomte's. "Gently, my brothers," said Nicot. "He was a rascal, but he was a man."
In 'quassia' we have the name of a negro sorcerer of Surinam, who in 1730 discovered its properties, and after whom it was called. An unsavoury jest of Vespasian has attached his name in French to an unsavoury spot. 'Nicotine, the poison recently drawn from tobacco, goes back for its designation to Nicot, a physician, who first introduced the tobacco-plant to the general notice of Europe.
Brawls were the bane of his existence, and he did his utmost to prevent them from becoming common affairs at the Corne d'Abondance. He trotted off to the cellars, muttering into his beard. Nicot and the king's messenger finished their supper, and then the latter was led to one of the chimney benches by Du Puys, who was desirous of questioning him.
But I see Monsieur Nicot calling to you; Monsieur Nicot, whose ancestor, God bless him! introduced this weed into France;" and Du Puys refilled his pipe, applied an ember, took off his faded baldric and rapier, and reclined full length on the bench. Maître le Borgne hurried away to attend to the wants of Monsieur Nicot. Presently the soldier said: "Shall we sail to-morrow, Master Mariner?"
How have you recruited?" "Tolerably well. Twenty gentlemen will sail with us; mostly improvident younger sons. But what's this turmoil between our comrade Nicot and Maître le Borgne?" sliding his booted legs to the floor and sitting upright.
"Monsieur," continued the youth imperturbably, "I am on the king's service." Several at the tables stretched their necks to observe the stranger. A courier from the king was not an everyday event in Rochelle. De Puys rose. "Pah!" snorted Nicot; "you look the groom a league off. Leave the table." "All in good time, Monsieur.
"If I smell of the horse," said the young man, calmly helping himself to a quarter of rabbit pie, "Monsieur smells strongly of the ass." Whereupon a titter ran round the room. This did not serve to mollify the anger of the irascible Nicot, whose hand went to his sword. "Softly, softly!" warned the youth, taking up the carving knife and jestingly testing the edge with his thumb-nail.
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