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ROSSIGNOL FARM. On relief the Battalion was disposed as follows: "A" and "D" Companies at Chateau de la Haie; "B" and "C" Companies and Battalion headquarters at Rossignol Farm. In May and June the Gommecourt sector was active, and the artillery fire on both sides was severe.
'I have both seen and heard the bird in France Rossignol, as we call it there; and were I a lady, I should deem it small compliment to be likened to a little russet-backed, homely fowl such as that.
Within a few yards help was there help and life. Just a frail latticed wooden door stood between her and them. She tried to rise to her feet. Adele Rossignol held her legs firmly. She was powerless. She sat with one desperate hope that, whoever it was who was in the garden, he would break in.
On one of these fields, Kléber and Marceau saw each other for the first time. But it seemed that Bonchamps was able to defeat even Kléber and Marceau, as he had defeated Westermann and Rossignol. Then a strange thing happened. Some men, in disguise, were brought into the Vendean lines.
The quick anger of M. Rossignol had passed away long before the Cure, the Abbe, and himself had reached the lake and the great plateau. Between the acts the two brothers walked up and down together, at peace once more, and there was a suspicious moisture in the Seigneur's eyes.
D'Aulnay's followers have just hanged him below the fort." "Hanged him! Hanged poor Klussman? Edelwald, I cannot have Klussman hanged!" Le Rossignol had stopped her mandolin, and the children clustered near Edelwald waiting for his notice. One of them now ran with the news to her. "Klussman is hanged," she repeated, changing her position on the table and laying the mandolin down.
"Make a footstool of myself for a spoiled puppet like thee?" Le Rossignol ran towards him and kicked his boots with the heel of her moccasin. The Swiss, remonstrating and laughing, moved back before her. "Have some care thou wilt break a deer-hoof on my stout leather. And why mount the battlements? A fall from this turret edge would spread thee out like a raindrop.
Monsieur de V said his idea was to make the contrast very strong between the girl and the angel; he certainly succeeded! Monsieur Due played some of what he calls his "Sketches." Every one was pleased; so was he. I sang "Le Rossignol," of Alabieff, in which is the cadenza Auber wrote for me. Princess Metternich played the accompaniment. Then she sang "Ah!
There was a little ballet, "Le Rossignol," in which Montessu and Noblet used to be famous in those days, and which Mr. Wagg transferred to the English stage as an opera, putting his verse, of which he was a skilful writer, to the pretty airs of the ballet.
He took no interest in Lady Dorinda and the box of Madame Bronck, and scratched the pallet with his toes and the nail at the end of his bill. But Le Rossignol pushed him down and pressed her confidences upon this familiar. "So her highness threw that box out into the fort.
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