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"We are a thousand miles from any white-man." "There's nothing impossible on this earth," retorted Radisson impatiently. "But pardieu, there are neither white women in this wilderness, nor ghosts wearing women's boots! I'd give my right hand to know what left that mark!" After that his haste grew feverish. We snatched our meals by turns between paddles.
"And you, my dear companion," said he, "you speak of the baronesses, countesses, and princesses of others?" "PARDIEU! I spoke of them because Porthos talked of them himself, because he had paraded all these fine things before me.
It was this operation which had caused him to execute the peculiar movements observed from the shed by Jean Valjean. He continued: "I said to myself, 'The moon is bright: it is going to freeze. What if I were to put my melons into their greatcoats? And," he added, looking at Jean Valjean with a broad smile, "pardieu! you ought to have done the same! But how do you come here?"
Between the waves of coarse hair, out of coal-black, deep-set eyes looked the soul of the half-breed, fierce, vengeful, ignorant, and embittered. "There is Meshawa," he said, "Meshawa, who was a little boy when I went to school, but who used to laugh when I talked of France. Pardieu! one day I found him alone when it was cold, and there was a fire in the room. Next time I talked he did not laugh!
"And I wager," added M. de la Rochefoucauld, "that it's against one of the Cardinal-Duke's people." "You are both right, gentlemen; but since when have you laughed at affairs of honor?" "The saints forbid I should," said M. de Beaufort. "Men of the sword like us ever reverence tierce, quarte, and octave; but as for the folds of the cassock, I know nothing of them." "Pardieu!
"Pardieu, no, Monsieur, we are early risers in the South for we have our siesta. You are going to return the portrait, Monsieur?" I nodded. "God bless you for the deed," said she. "Tenez, Monsieur," she added, stepping closer to me, "you will tell his father that you bought it from Monsieur Auguste?" I saw that she had a soft spot in her heart for the rogue.
"Pardieu!" exclaimed De Malfort, "there are tragedies and comedies in the boxes deeper and more human than anything that is acted on the stage. To watch the Queen, sitting silent and melancholy, while Madame Barbara lolls across half a dozen people to talk to his Majesty, dazzling him with her brilliant eyes, bewildering him by her daring speech.
"'Why, this is nectar! cried the Viscount, having tasted. 'And do you tell me that those ignorant louts poured six hogsheads of it to waste? "'The gutters ran with it, monseigneur! Rhone wine, that even at four livres the hogshead could not be sold at a profit. "'Pardieu! The Viscount knitted his brow.
"Pardieu! that we are at the Halles!" "You do not, I suppose, want our horses to clamber up on the roof of the carriage in front of us?" "No." "Nor the carriage in front of us to mount on top of the one in front of it. Nor that the second should be driven over the roofs of the thirty or forty others which have arrived before us." "No, you are right, indeed. What a number of people!
"Oh, pardieu, less than nothing," said Aramis; "a charming little seamstress, whom I love dearly and from whose hand I requested a few lines as a sort of keepsake." "The duvil!" said the Swiss, "if she is as great a lady as her writing is large, you are a lucky fellow, gomrade!" Aramis read the letter, and passed it to Athos. "See what she writes to me, Athos," said he.
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