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"He's a devil to fight and as strong as an ox;" and they turned and followed the Sénéchal and Philip Carré through the tunnel. "Good riddance!" said a woman in the crowd, taking off her black sun-bonnet and giving it an angry shake before putting it on again. "We don't want any of that kind here," with a meaning look at the big fishermen behind, which set them grinning and winking knowingly.
It informed him that Martel, having married into Sercq and settled on Sercq, belonged to Sercq, and they would have none of him, and were accordingly sending him home again. When Martel appeared to lodge his complaint, and claim the old Island right to cessation of oppression and trial of his cause, M. le Sénéchal was prepared for him.
The body is lifted carefully out and laid on the cool grey stones, and the woman stands looking at it as a tiger may look at her slaughtered mate. "Stand back! Stand back!" cries the Sénéchal to the thronging crowd; and to the Constable, "Keep them back, you, Elie Guille!" to which Elie Guille growls, "Par madé, but that's not easy, see you!"
Some witty people have remarked that the duchess of Valentinois spoke truly, and that she was as faithful in one case as in the other. Above the entablature, the equestrian statue, of the senechal, in white marble is placed.
But from one of the waiting boats behind, half a dozen shots rang out in a sudden blaze of light, and the Sénéchal fell back among us, and our men began a hot fire at the boats from behind their rocks. I ran to M. Le Couteur, as I had no weapons but a cutlass and pistols, and these were only for close work. He was bleeding in the head and chest, but said he thought the wounds were not serious.
My heart goes right down into my feet when I think of it." "There is no need. I am all right." "The Sénéchal and the Seigneur could not stop them?" "Mr. Le Pelley is in Guernsey still. The Sénéchal they would not listen to. But the truth will come out if only you will wait." "If I get away, will you come to me, Nance? And all my life I will give to making you happy." "Yes, I will come.
The decoy's head must be well padded, of course, for the heads of both victims had been the points of attack. He must be well armed also, and being forewarned and more, he ought to be able to give a certain account of himself. And then the Doctor and the Sénéchal would be close at hand and on the keen look-out for emergencies.
Open, you fools!" cried the Sénéchal, and flung himself against the first door, while those inside, under the sure belief that they were keeping out the devil, heaped themselves against it to prevent him. "Dolts! Idiots! Fools!" he cried. "It's me the Sénéchal. I want your help!" and at that a man peeped out from the next door to make sure this was not just another wile of the devil. "A lantern!
"B'en, M. le Sénéchal, we'll pay it all among us," and away they went; and back to her look-out by Brenière went Nance, and the Vicar with her for comfort in this dark hour. They watched the boats circling the rock, round and round. They heard the firing, and Nance flung herself on the ground in an agony of weeping, sure that the end had come.
On the third day, Gard quietly opened his eyes on Nance, who had barely left his bedside since the Sénéchal went down to La Closerie himself and brought her back with him to Plaisance. "I've been asleep," he said drowsily.
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