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"I said that the capture of that town would cost us 10,000 men. It has cost Ney's corps alone half that number, and we have not taken it; and yet we fought well. Had every man been as old a soldier as myself they could not have done their duty better. Peste! these Russians are obstinate brigands." "It was desperate work," Julian said, "more terrible than anything I could have imagined.
Peste! you reckon like old Pythagoras; yes, twenty thousand livres." "Ten times the appointment of an intendant of the finances. I beg to offer you my compliments," said Colbert, with a vicious smile. "Oh!" said D'Artagnan, "the king apologized for giving me so little; but he promised to make it more hereafter, when he should be rich; but I must be gone, having much to do "
Being grossly abused during a discussion by some young addlehead who might have been the best son in the world, but who certainly lacked all sense of respect, the old master answered him in his treatise De la Mumie, de la Licorne, des Venins et de la Peste.
"The traveler who has a lackey?" asked D'Artagnan. "He is some gentleman, no doubt?" "I know nothing of him." "What! know nothing of him?" "No, all I know is, that he is drinking the same wine as you." "Peste! that is a great honor for us," said D'Artagnan, filling his companion's glass, whilst the host went out.
"Peste, monsieur! may not a lady well be modestly careful when Name of the devil! what's that?" It was the note of a whistle shrilling down the narrow passage without the passage where Dollops, in Apache garb, had been set on watch; and, hearing it, Cleek clamped his jaws together and breathed hard.
"Peste! don't mention such trifles. There is such a thing as business that concerns my agent; such a thing as friendship that concerns me. Allez!"
This torrent of majestic crystal seen from above so smooth and bountiful a flood of the milk of Nature dispensed from the white bosom of the hills! Now, near at hand, what do we find it? A medley of opaque blocks, smeared with grit and rubbish; a vast ruin of avalanches hurled together and consolidated, and of the colour of rock salt. "'Peste! I cried.
Peste, the jolly fellow has a good foot and a good eye. There must be a great deal to gain to risk his skin this way. Faith! these demure faces are not to be trusted." The great Fritz was so stupefied with his discovery that he seated himself a moment upon a stone to collect his thoughts.
It is a dark night, and I fall asleep and tell my honest coachman, Andre, not to disturb me, and dream of an angel. The carriage at last stops at the chateau. It is so dark that, when I alight, I do not recognize the face of the footman who holds the carriage-door. But what of that? peste! I am heavy with sleep.
"A treasure!" said Pelisson; "you would make a famous present to monsieur the governor of the concierge! Peste! monseigneur, he might have his head cut off; but he would, before dying, have had such happiness as no man had enjoyed before him."
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