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"To obtain the King's good word with M. de Perrot to permit the marriage of his son with his niece; who is, unfortunately, without a portion." Madame uttered a low exclamation, and her eyes wandering from me, she took up as if her thoughts strayed also a small ornament; from the table beside her. "Ah!" she said, looking at it closely. "But Perrot's son did he know of this?"
On coming within half a mile of Perrot's I let fall his name, and in a very natural way suggested that the King should alight there for a few minutes. It was one of the things Henry delighted to do, for, endowed with the easiest manners, and able in a moment to exchange the formality of the Louvre for the freedom of the camp, he could give to such cheap favours their full value.
The unfortunate confusion which prevails throughout Perrot's description of the method of counting, and the way in which the point was shirked by all other writers on the subject, prevents any attempt at analysis. So far as we can see, the rules were arbitrary and not based upon any calculations of the laws of chance.
But Fenelon, undaunted, continued to espouse Perrot's cause without concealment and brought down upon himself a charge of sedition. In its final stage this cause celebre runs into still further intricacies, involving the rights of the clergy when accused by the civil power.
Among others, the two who had been the occasion of the dispute were captured and sent to Quebec, where one of them was solemnly hanged before the window of Perrot's prison; with the view, no doubt, of producing a chastening effect on the mind of the prisoner. Thus the central power was vindicated, and Montreal brought down from her attitude of partial independence.
Another time, in despair of bringing the matter to any conclusion, the president proposed that it should be decided by single combat between them, a proposal which Fitzmaurice prudently resisted on the ground that though Perrot's place could no doubt readily be supplied, his own was less easily to fill, and that therefore for his followers' sake he must decline.
Some little support to M. Perrot's theory is afforded by a circumstance on which Layard dwells strongly in the passage referred to above, namely, that the sphinxes were found buried over their heads in charcoal, which may very well have been the remains of such a porch; its quantity seems too great for those of a ceiling.
In answer to Perrot's assertion that all early Phoenician tombs were hypogea, we may say that as the Bahrein Islands offered no facility for this method of sepulture, the closely-covered-in mound would be the most natural substitute.
Then he leaned forward, and found Perrot's eyes in the half darkness. "Perrot, she kept the letter, she would have kept the ring if she could. Listen: Monsieur Gering has held to his word; he has come to seek me this time. He knows that while I live the woman is not his, though she bears his name. She married him Why? It is no matter he was there, I was not. There were her father, her friends!
But having made his speech, he settled back to his tobacco and into the orator's earned repose. Iberville looked up from the fire and said: "Perrot, you saw her in New York. What speech was there between you?" Perrot's eyes twinkled. "There was not much said. "I put myself in her way. When she saw me her cheek came like a peach-blossom. 'A very good morning, ma'm'selle, said I, in English.
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