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But, pardieu! what use? A man of sense will not dream such fool dreams. This I know, there are three sentries yonder in the passageway, a good dozen more under arms in the guard-room beyond, with still others vigilantly pacing the deck above. What use, I say, for did not poor Villere try it, and, before he had covered twenty feet, had three bullets in his brain?
Oh! what a pretty old house!" "The sign Notre Dame; it is an old cabaret, which I have transformed into a private house in two days." "But the cabaret is still open?" "Pardieu!" "And where do you lodge, then?" "I? I lodge with Planchet." "You said, just now, 'This is my house." "I said so, because, in fact, it is my house. I have bought it." "Ah!" said Raoul.
I do profess I feel the delicacy of the affair, and I detest it, pardieu. But I dare not absolve ye from your duty." "Oh, sir, you are very sublime." "Hear me out, Mr. Boyce. I have shown you cause to fear that your father has it in mind to compass a vile treachery, perhaps a murder. Would you deny it?" "Damme, sir, I am not the day of judgment." "Bien. I believe that is an answer.
"What! do you ask me whether it concerns me or does not concern me, if M. Colbert pleases to make a funeral-pile of my house?" "So, ho, your house was it your house they wanted to burn?" "Pardieu! was it!" "Is the cabaret of the Image-de-Notre-Dame yours, then?" "It has been this week."
Indeed, he did all he could to save me. Did he not tell you so?" "How could he tell me? I have not seen him." "You have not seen him? Then your porter spoke the truth." "I have not seen him since eleven last night." "But where can he be?" "I should rather ask you." "Oh, pardieu, tell me about it, it is very droll." The poor woman looked at him with astonishment. "No, it is very sad, I mean.
I who tell it you was one time attack on this very river by three red devil in ze canoe. See here, ze scar on my head! Ze wild gentlemen make no ceremony he yell, and he shall right away take ze scalp with his knife. Pardieu! By good chance I shoot ze one impolite Iroquoix and ze two, his second, paddle away!"
I could have sat down upon the dirty pavement and wept, so mortified was I! For if Zara el-Khala had secured the envelope I had missed my only chance. However, pardieu! I have said that despair is not permitted by the Bureau. I rode home to my hotel, deep in reflection.
One of his friends, having witnessed the displeasure exhibited towards him by Louis XIV, who was beginning to become devout, thought to do him a service by warning him that the king "gardait une dent" against him. "Pardieu!" replied the chevalier, "I am indeed unlucky when the only tooth left to him remains to bite me."
If we acted otherwise, we should have against us Bussy, and a hundred other dangerous swords." "Bah! Bussy is going to fight against the king's minions." "Pardieu! he will kill them, and then he will join us," said the Duc de Guise; "he is a superior man, and one whom I much esteem, and I will make him general of the army in Italy, where war is sure to break out."
His idiotic lightness of speech and manner jarred unpleasantly upon my humor. I was heavy-hearted from what had passed, retaining little confidence in the future, yet I told him the story as best I could, trusting the recital might serve to sober him, so we could counsel together regarding our plans. "Pardieu! 'twas rather a pretty trick of the lady," he exclaimed laughingly, as I ended the tale.
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