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"Monsieur, c'est le tabac pour le nez d'un inonarque," he said lazily. Hugon sat down upon the log, helped himself to the mixture with a grand air, and shook the yellow dust from his ruffles. The action, meant to be airy, only achieved fierceness. From some hidden sheath he drew a knife, and began to strip from the log a piece of bark. "Tell me, you," he said. "Have you been to France?

That queer little dwarf going about with a heavy basket, winding in and out among the people, helps not a little. You can hear his shrill cry above all the other sounds, "Pypen en tabac! Pypen en tabac!" Another, his big brother, though evidently some years younger, is selling doughnuts and bonbons. He is calling on all pretty children far and near to come quickly or the cakes will be gone.

"Il a du bon tabac Dans sa tabatière "has the Admiral. The saints rest his brave soul!" The General lifted his tricorne. He never understood the tide of red which surged over Dorothea's face; but she conquered it, and went on to surprise him further: "I heard of this only last night. We have been visiting Dartmoor, my brother and I, with a release for for that M. Raoul." "So I understood."

"If you'd tie a bit o' pink ribbon round me neck, I'd die wid pride," said McGilveray, spitting on the ground in defiance at the same time. The big soldier laughed, and told his comrades what the bandmaster had said. One of them grinned, but the other frowned sullenly, and said: "Avez vous tabac?" "Havey you to-ba-co?" said the big soldier instantly interpreting.

"We've come for baccy," said Lockley, as he leaped over the bulwarks and shook hands, "I s'pose you've plenty of that?" "Ya," the Dutchman had "plenty tabac ver sheep too, an' mit sooch a goot vlavour!" He was what the Yankees would call a 'cute fellow, that Dutchman.

Chuckling softly to himself, Medallion strode away through the lane of white-board houses and the smoke of strong tabac from these houses, now and then pulling suddenly up to avoid stumbling over a child, where children are numbered by the dozen to every house. He came at last to a house unlike the others, in that it was of stone and larger.

The corporal stayed when the others went out, and, in broken English, told McGilveray so. "I'll play a hornpipe, an' his gory shroud is round him," said McGilveray. The corporal grinned from ear to ear. "You like a chew tabac?" said he, pulling out a dirty knob of a black plug. McGilveray had found a man after his own heart.

When he go 'long de street, everybody say, 'Ah, dere go de good Mathurin! He laugh, he tell story, he smoke leetla tabac, he take leetla white wine behin' de door; dat is nosing non. "He have in de parish five, ten, twenty children all call Mathurin; he is godfadder with dem yes. So he go about with plenty of sugar and sticks of candy in his pocket.

He sought news of me from the garçons at the various cafés, from the cochers de fiacre in front of the Exchange, from the tobacconist lady at the counter of the fashionable Débit de Tabac, from the old man who sold papers outside the cercle, and from the flower-girl at the door of the fashionable restaurant where I had my table.

"I say to her that there will be good crop, and next year we will be ver' happy. So, the time go on, and I send up a leetla snack of pork and molass' and tabac, and sugar and tea, and I get a letter from Bargon bimeby, and he say that heverything go right, he t'ink, this summer. He say I must come up. It is not dam easy to go in the summer, when the mill run night and day; but I say I will go.