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There the rougher elements were collected, and there I more than once saw Bezers' troopers in conflict with the mob. In that quarter too a savage chant was presently struck up, the whole gathering joining in and yelling with an indescribably appalling effect: "Hau! Hau! Huguenots! Faites place aux Papegots!" in derision of the old song said to be popular amongst the Protestants.
For as the stranger disappeared in the gloom, he turned his head and broke with an audacity that took away the listener's breath into a well-known air, "Hau! Hau! Papegots! Faites place aux Huguenots!" and trilled it as merrily as if he had been in the streets of Rochelle. "Death!" the clerk exclaimed, getting back into the house, and barring the door in a panic. "I thought so. He is a Huguenot.
We stand outside this welter and, having only the cold passion of revenge, can think coolly. God's truth, man, have we fought the Indian and the Spaniard for nothing? Wily is the word. | Are we two gentlemen, who fear God, to be worsted by a rabble of Papegots and Marannes?" It was the word "Marannes," or, as we say, "halfcastes," which brought conviction to Gaspard.
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