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Updated: September 26, 2025
They were arresting eyes amazingly dark, "like two patches o' the sky be night," as Brady described them long afterwards to a crony of his, and they gazed up at the astonished poacher from a small, sharply angled face, as delicately cut as a cameo. "Put that gun down!" commanded an imperious young voice, a voice that held something indescribably sweet and thrilling in its vibrant quality.
"How clumsy," said I to the Père Séguin, as he emerged from the thicket, "and how unfortunate, for I have some friends coming to dine with me this week." "Never mind, never mind," replied the poacher; "I will fill your larder to-morrow." "Well, you are a good fellow, but remember I require also some fish a fine dish of trout."
Claudet's conscience reminded him of several rare frolics, chance love-affairs, meetings in the woods, and so on, and he feared the priest might have told Reine some unfavorable stories about him. "Ah!" he continued, clenching his fists, "if this old poacher in a cassock has done me an ill turn with you, he will not have much of a chance for paradise!"
I must not forget to add, that the ruffians left, at a cottage on the roadside, the man whose face was blackened with powder, apparently because he was unable to bear transportation. He died in about half an hour after. On examining the corpse, it proved to be that of a profligate boor in the neighbourhood, a person notorious as a poacher and smuggler.
For several years the stream had not spouted so far from the tower as it was doing on this night, and such a contingency had been over- looked. Sometimes this obscure corner received no inhabitant for the space of two or three years, and then it was usually but a pauper, a poacher, or other sinner of undignified sins.
I had not enterprise or impudence enough to venture from my concealment; indeed, I felt like an arrant poacher, until I read one or two of Ovid's Metamorphoses, when I pictured myself as some sylvan deity, and she a coy wood nymph of whom I was in pursuit. There is something extremely delicious in these early awakenings of the tender passion.
The presiding Judge of the Assizes could not make him understand that, although a gendarme has the right to fire upon a poacher, a poacher has no right to fire upon a gendarme. Chantegreil escaped the guillotine, owing to his obviously sincere belief in his own innocence, and his previous good character.
"No," said Nicholas, affecting an indifferent manner; "for two days we have not seen him; perhaps he has returned to his old trade of a poacher unless his boat, which was very old, has sunk in the river, and he with " "That don't give you much concern, good-for-nothing, for you can't feel it much!" "It is true, one has his own ideas. How many pounds of copper are there?"
The captain again regarded him with that penetrating glance whose power is matter of history and replied, "I suppose it was in such service that thou camest by that ugly scar across thy nose. Thou hast never been a soldier, well I wot." "Thou 'rt right, Captain," said Billington putting his hand to his face with an unabashed laugh. "It was a poacher"
"I suppose," hazarded the Admiral, "it helps the police in identifying criminals." "But the letter says 'all the prisoners. You don't seriously tell me that anyone wants a photograph to identify Poacher Tresize, whom I've committed a score of times if I've committed him once? And perhaps you'll explain to me this further demand for a 'Composite Photograph' of all the prisoners, male and female.
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