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I was billeted with the mayor, Monsieur Georges. After dinner he produced two grimy bottles of Pol Roger he said that he had been forced to change their hiding-place four times, and had just dug them up in his cellar. They were destined for the night of liberation.
His fortune and title were the fruit of contracts for horses and provisions which he made with the commissariat of Napoleon I. in the days when the Netherlands were a French province. But though Pol Staar's hands were callous and his manners plain, his tastes were aristocratic. They had been formed young in the company of great trees.
I saw a chance of making money elsewhere, and I wanted a start, and I turned rogue for the sake of it. Polly, Polly. I'll pay every penny with a three per cent, interest compound, mind you compound and I shall be a rich man still! 'Pol, you're hard. I don't know where you get it from. But, mind you!
"A worthy name, and, as I think, of Cornish lineage; for what says the south proverb 'By Pol, Tre, and Pen, You may know the Cornish men. Shall I say the worthy Master Tressilian of Cornwall?" "Say no more than I have given you warrant for, mine host, and so shall you be sure you speak no more than is true.
As Sylvestre Ker walked down the path at the end of which is the Cross of St. Cado, he saw, on the summit of the promontory, Pol and Matheline strolling along, talking and laughing; so he thought, "I need not go far to see Matheline's two pearls." And, in fact, the girl's merry laughter could be heard below, for it always burst forth if Pol did but open his lips.
He did not proceed to Paris, there was no coronation at Rheims, no comfortable reception within any gates at all, for Charles was as chary as Louis himself of giving the English a foothold, though he advised Edward to accept an invitation from St. Pol to visit St. Quentin. This, however, proved another disappointment.
He was still more pitiless towards a man more formidable and less subordinate, both in character and origin, than Cardinal Balue. Louis of Luxembourg, Count of St. Pol, had been from his youth up engaged in the wars and intrigues of the sovereigns and great feudal lords of Western Europe France, England, Germany, Burgundy, Brittany, and Lorraine.
Pol Bihan kicked him on the head, and said, "Take that, you fool!" and Matheline threw stones at him, and cried: "Idiot, take that, and that, and that!" They had hoped for all the gold in the world, and this dead beast could give them nothing more. After a while two ragged beggars passed by and assisted Josserande in carrying the wolf into the tower. Where is charity most often found?
The words flashed into light from the folded pages of Julian's memory, and with them the dim image of a dead face, and the dying echo of a father's voice. "Pol pudere quam pigere proestat totidem literis." Plautus Trinum, Two, 2.
If Arras and Vimy had not held, things would have been grave indeed. Had they been captured, says the official report of the Third Army, "our main lateral communications Amiens Doullens St. Pol St. Omer would have been seriously threatened if not cut." The Germans were determined to have them, and they fought for them with a desperate courage.
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