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Shortly after he had gone, a hoarse voice behind me cried: "Permit me, my dear sir permit me to restore to their proper place two napoleons which you have dropped. Wonderful luck, sir! I pledge you my word of honor, as an old soldier, in the course of my long experience in this sort of thing, I never saw such luck as yours never! Go on, sir Sacre mille bombes! Go on boldly, and break the bank!"
"Oh, sacre bleu, been dead three thousan' year!" The doctor turned on him savagely: "Here, now, what do you mean by such conduct as this! Playing us for Chinamen because we are strangers and trying to learn! Trying to impose your vile second-hand carcasses on us! thunder and lightning, I've a notion to to if you've got a nice fresh corpse, fetch him out! or by George we'll brain you!"
The Church, too, has lavished her millions on the mighty basilica of the Sacré Coeur, which towers over Paris from the heights of Montmartre. But some of the glory of past ages remains hidden away in corners of the city; some has been recovered from the vandalism of iconoclastic eighteenth-century architects, canons, revolutionists and nineteenth-century prefects.
"I ask no better," said Aramis, with that ingenious air of confidence which every poet has in himself; "but let me be properly acquainted with the subject. I have heard here and there that this sister-in-law was a hussy. I have obtained proof of it by listening to her conversation with the cardinal." "Lower! SACRE BLEU!" said Athos. "But," continued Aramis, "the details escape me."
Now you must note that the next day was the great festival of Corpus Christi, called the Sacre, wherein all women put on their best apparel, and on that day the said lady was clothed in a rich gown of crimson satin, under which she wore a very costly white velvet petticoat.
We took them within a league of the town, and came to anchor with them within sacre shot of the east Bulwark. There were in those frigates some twelve or thirteen common mariners, which entreated to be set ashore. To them our Captain gave the greater frigate's gundeloe, and dismissed them.
The cry of "Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité," often broke from his lips. When Burr opened to him part of the plausible scheme against Mexico he eagerly volunteered to join any expedition gotten up in the name of freedom. He proffered his services as surgeon, and asked with amusing simplicity what would be the emoluments. "Sacré!" exclaimed he. "Il faut vivre! Let us destroy ze Spaniard.
"He has found out the cleverest hand in France, the very fellow who helped Bouchard in all his five-franc pieces. He has promised to bring him to-night." "Ay, I remember," returned Gawtrey, "he told me this morning, he is a famous decoy!" "I think so, indeed!" quoth a coiner; "for he caught you, the best head to our hands that ever les industriels were blessed with sacre fichtre!"
Ah! sacre petit polisson de Napoleon! have I found thee at last? Now then, sir two tight double knots each way with your honorable permission, and the money's safe. Feel it! feel it, fortunate sir! hard and round as a cannon-ball Ah, bah! if they had only fired such cannon-balls at us at Austerlitz nom d'une pipe! if they only had!
You may be an infidel, but you have a head, and you save me money, and you give away your own, and that's good enough for me," he wrung Charley's hand, "and I don't care who knows it sacre!" Charley did not answer him, but calmly withdrew his hand, smiled, raised his hat at the lonely cheer the saddler raised, and passed on, scarce conscious of what had happened.
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