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"Apparemment c'est un pauvre miserable, qui a fait naufrage," observed the old negro, who appeared to have the charge of the vessel; "Gustave Adolphe, tu parles bien l'Anglois; demandez-lui les nouvelles," continued the old man, folding his arms across, and looking very big indeed, as he reclined against the mainmast of the vessel. Gustave Adolphe stood forward from the rest of the negroes.
"He! bien messieurs et dames! vous ne connaissez donc plus votre pauvre Rosalie!" Such was one of many pleasantries by which we were diverted and amused.
But the apothecary, who perhaps had more penetration or less partiality than his wife and daughter, differed from them in their sentiments of the matter, and expressed himself to me in the shop in this manner: "Ah mon pauvre Roderique! you have more of de veracite dan of de prudence bot mine vife and dater be diablement sage, and Monsieur le Capitaine un fanfaron, pardieu!"
Then, with the unreasoned impetuousness of a charging bull, he turned and flung shoreward down the pier. The cripple, groaning still, crawled to Simpson's feet and sat there. "Pauvre garçon!" repeated Simpson dully. "Pauvre garçon!" Suddenly the boy stopped groaning, swung Simpson's kit-bag on his shoulder, and sidled up the pier.
"Oh, pauvre chien!" cried the spectators, "c'est fini!" "Not yet," cried Baptiste, as he sprang with a scream to his feet again, and began his dance with redoubled energy, just as if all that had gone before was a mere sketch a sort of playful rehearsal, as it were, of what was now to follow.
That the young King did not think of putting himself at the head of the troops or of taking part in the campaign shows sufficiently that he was indeed a pauvre sire, unworthy his gallant people. Jeanne, however, nothing better being possible, seems to have accepted this mission with readiness, and instantly began her preparations to carry it out.
"Hope dar 's no danger yet," he added, in a voice intended for the ear of Lalee. "We oberhaul de Catamaran by 'm by. De wind change, and bring dat craff down on us. 'Peak in de French, Massa Ben," he continued, at the same time adroitly adopting a patois of that language. "De pauvre jeune fille don't understan' de French lingo.
My wife, who liked you so cordially, implored me to look after you during her absence from Paris, and, enfin, mon pauvre garcon, it would grieve me very much if, when she comes back, I had to say to her, 'Gustave Rameau has thrown away the chance of redemption and of happiness which you deemed was secure to him. A l'oeil malade, la lumiere nuit." So saying, he held out his hand kindly.
"Pauvre mignonne!" she cried. But Mrs. Holt rebuked the nurse sharply, in French, a language with which neither Aunt Mary nor Uncle Tom was familiar. Fortunately, perhaps. Mrs. Holt's remark was to the effect that Honora was going to a sensible home. "Hortense loves her better than my own children," said that lady.
François I Thou long-tried servitor of Etienne Barbérie, what the devil has become of thy mistress?" "Mais, Monsieur," returned the disconsolate valet, whose decent features exhibited all the signs of unequivocal suffering, "she no tell le pauvre François! En supposant, que Monsieur ask le capitaine, he shall probablement know."
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