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I will so advantageously bestow 2,000 piastres, that the person receiving them shall obtain a respite till next year for Peppino; and during that year, another skilfully placed 1,000 piastres will afford him the means of escaping from his prison." "And do you feel sure of succeeding?" "Pardieu!" exclaimed the man in the cloak, suddenly expressing himself in French.
"No, 'pardieu'! I do not forget it," replied the latter, in a low voice; then, addressing the Queen, "Madame," said he, "accept the offer of Monsieur le Grand. He is more in a position to sway the King than either you or I; but hold yourself prepared, for the Cardinal is too wary to be caught sleeping. I do not believe in his illness.
"Dreadful? Pardieu, not so dreadful," he answered, smiling, and striving to give the dispute a playful turn. "You have seen more in a week than you would have seen at Vrillac in a lifetime, Mademoiselle." "And I choke!" she retorted; "I choke! Do you not see how they look at us, at us Huguenots, in the street? How they, who live here, point at us and curse us?
I could not succeed in puzzling it out, but a word from Nicklauss the door-keeper opened my eyes. "Do you notice, Monsieur Passajon," said that worthy retainer, standing in front of me, halberd in hand, "do you notice how few ladies we have?" Pardieu! that was it. And we two were not the only ones who noticed it.
Through the door of the passage which led to the kitchen he saw la Grande Nanon sitting beside her fire with a candle and preparing to spin there, so as not to intrude among the guests. "Nanon," he said, going into the passage, "put out that fire and that candle, and come and sit with us. Pardieu! the hall is big enough for all." "But monsieur, you are to have the great people."
"Not so," she cried. "He was here in Paris when it happened. He was revolted at the deed." "Did they teach you that at the convent?" "No, but it is true. M. de St. Quentin warned my cousin Henri not to go to Blois." "Pardieu, you think them angels, these St. Quentins." "I think them brave and honest gentlemen, as I think you, Cousin Charles."
"How long ago was it?" I asked in a hushed voice. "Since M. le Comte left us? It will be three weeks next Friday." "How did he die?" "Die?" echoed Marcel. "You crazy fellow, he is not dead!" It was my turn to stare. "Then where is he?" "It would be money in my pouch if I knew. What made you think him dead, Félix?" "A man told me so." "Pardieu!" he cried in some excitement. "When? Who was it?"
Pardieu, you are by no means welcome here, as I neither affect nor will receive such guests. He was about to reply, but I thrust him back, saying at the same time, 'Go, go; find another entrance, for your jargon will fail to make any impression upon me. The King having subsequently inquired of him if he had not thought the ballet magnificent and admirably executed, Pimentello replied that he was anxious to have witnessed it, but that he had been encountered at the door by his finance minister, who had met him with a negative and shut him out; an adventure which so much amused the monarch that he not only laughed heartily himself, but made the whole Court participators in his amusement."
"No, pardieu! I was one already, having nothing. Let us change." "Then be prodigal." "Still less, Mordioux! Debts terrify me. Creditors appear to me, by anticipation, like those devils who turn the damned upon the gridirons, and as patience is not my dominant virtue, I am always tempted to thrash those devils." "You are the wisest man I know, and stand in no need of advice from any one.
"Pardieu! but I may not obey you for this once," he answered, "since we are informed by those in holy orders that all such as lay violent hands upon themselves must suffer eternally." Then, kneeling, he cried, in an extremity of adoration: "Oh, I have served you all my life. You may not now deny me this last service. And while I talk they dig your grave!
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