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"I know the regiment of Touraine," Malcolm said; "and there are no braver set of men in the king's service. What is his name?" "Pierre Pitou. I have not heard of him for the last two years. He is a tall man, and broad, with a scar over the left eye." "To be sure, to be sure!" Malcolm said.
About her in the tall trees of the allee the percherons twittered while the soft roucoulement of the bees murmured drowsily in the tall calice of the chou-fleur. Can we blame him if he didn't? No doubt he was still studying his active verb before tackling Mere Pitou. But there! Let it pass. In any case it is not only the magazines, but the novels themselves, that are being transformed by the war.
On one side the high ridge of the Mont Brabant, which is linked to the mainland only by a narrow neck of earth, stretches far out into the shining sea; near at hand rises the Pitou de la Rivière Noire, the loftiest summit in the island 2,564 feet.
A crowd of loud-voiced, perspiring girls in short fancy petticoats and with bare necks and arms, pushed their way towards the mysterious and ladder-like staircases and scrambled up them. Ange Pitou had taken off his cocked hat and was sharing a pint of beer with Clairette. It being her turn to drink, she said: 'Noe, hold my skirts in, there's a dear; this beer plays the devil with white satin.
"So I did," said Captain Brent. "I had forgotten that. It was when the French dress, with the furbelows, which Madame Pitou had gotten me from Paris for you, was lost." "And I think I liked the piece of wheel better," says Virginia. "It was brought me by a brave man, the last to leave his boat." "And who should be the last to leave, but the captain?
Whoso would travel as a moral archaeologist, observing men instead of stones, would find images of the time of Louis XV. in many a village of Provence, of the time of Louis XIV. in the depths of Pitou, and of still more ancient times in the towns of Brittany.
"So I did," said Captain Brent. "I had forgotten that. It was when the French dress, with the furbelows, which Madame Pitou had gotten me from Paris for you, was lost." "And I think I liked the piece of wheel better," says Virginia. "It was brought me by a brave man, the last to leave his boat." "And who should be the last to leave, but the captain?
"So I did," said Captain Brent. "I had forgotten that. It was when the French dress, with the furbelows, which Madame Pitou had gotten me from Paris for you, was lost." "And I think I liked the piece of wheel better," says Virginia. "It was brought me by a brave man, the last to leave his boat." "And who should be the last to leave, but the captain?
"Of course, Pierre Pitou is one of my best friends; and now I think of it, madam, I ought to know without asking, so great is his resemblance to you. Why, his last words to me were, 'If you go to Tours, seek out my sister, who lives in a house nearly opposite the entrance to the convent of Our Lady; and to think I should have forgotten all about it till I saw you!"
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