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During the height of the affair, he observed to me: "If this Monsieur Gallois, and his bloody lugger, could only be brought into the scrape, Miles, my mind would be contented. I should glory in seeing the corvette and the Polisson scratching out each other's eyes, like two fish-women, whose dictionaries have given out."
I called out to him to surrender, and that I'd give him quarter: he called me a petit polisson and fired his pistol at me, and then sent it at my head with a curse. I rode at him, sir, drove my sword right under his arm-hole, and broke it in the rascal's body. I found a purse in his holster with sixty-five Louis in it, and a bundle of love-letters, and a flask of Hungary-water.
Polisson," she cried, "I am afraid that you and my husband were very gay young men when you were at college together. Oh, don't tell me; I know I know. I've heard of some of your scrapes." I protested feebly against this impeachment, but Armstrong winked at me with the air of a sly dog, and said: "It's no use, Polisson. You can't fool Mrs.
"'Monsieur will pay, or monsieur will give me the reason why. I believe you're little better than a polisson, Colonel Altamont, that was the phrase he used" Altamont said with a grin and I got plenty more of this language from the two fellows, and was in the thick of the row with them, when another of our party came in.
This letter may be supplemented by another, say Exhibit B, which I received from Clay not long after: "MY DEAR POLISSON: It occurs to me that your question the other day, as to how I was 'getting on, did not receive as candid an answer as it deserved.
"We are a merry party this morning, Captain Wallingford," Marble cried out, as soon as he saw me. "I have found no less than six sail in sight, since the day dawned." "I hope that neither is a lugger. I feel more afraid of this Polisson, just now, than of all the names in christendom.
"It was not until the next day, Monsieur," he went on, "that I knew anything. Then I was in the hospital. "'How did it go? I asked of the hospital-steward. "'Shut up, said the steward. "This made me angry. 'How did it go, polisson? I cried. 'Tell me, or I'll crush your bones. "Then the man was more civil. 'The Russians were driven back, he said, 'and a lot of them were captured.
Ah! sacre petit polisson de Napoleon! have I found thee at last? Now then, sir two tight double knots each way with your honourable permission, and the money's safe. Feel it! feel it, fortunate sir! hard and round as a cannon-ball A bas if they had only fired such cannon-balls at us at Austerlitz nom d'une pipe! if they only had!
"It is the house of LE BON DIEU. Can we build it in hate?" "POLISSON! You make an excuse. Then come to Girard's, and fight there." Again Prosper held in for a moment, and spoke three words: "No! Not now." "Not now? But when, you heart of a hare? Will you sneak out of it until you turn gray and die? When will you fight, little musk-rat?" "When I have forgotten. When I am no more your friend."
Quite suddenly he realized that he had been waiting for this bracing himself against its onslaught. He had not been altogether blind through the past month. Ste. Marie seized him and dragged him from his chair. "Dance, lump of flesh! Dance, sacred English rosbif that you are! Sing, gros polisson! Sing!"
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