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"What, in Heaven's name, can she want?" "Only one thing!" "And that is " "To have loved." Wherewith he turned into the Greco. He had found the one flaw and it was still there. What he missed in her was still wanting. "V'la ce que c'est la gloire au grabat!" The contemptuous sentence was crushed through Cigarette's tight-pressed, bright-red lips, with an irony sadder than tears.
"I am sure that they were here wearing these black gowns and huge red aprons in the twelfth century. What is this?" he said, stopping abruptly, to a boy of six who was digging mud at the foot of an ancient ivy-covered tower. "C'est le tour du Connetable," the child lisped. "Et v'la, monsieur!" pointing to a filthy pen with a gate of black oak; "v'la le donjon de Clisson!"
We are up the chimney, we are on the guard-house roof, we are swimming in the murky ditch, when lo! 'Qui v'la? a bugle, the alarm, a crash! What is it? Death? No, Amiens. More fortifications, more soldiering and drumming, more basins of soup, more little loaves of bread, more bottles of wine, more caraffes of brandy, more time for refreshment. Everything good, and everything ready.
Delicio hath come to spring-time, and the voice of the turtle is in her ear." "Amicitia and who is Amicitia?" asked Lempriere, well flushed with wine. "She who hath brought Obligato to the diminuendo and finale," answered the fool; "even she who hath befriended the Huguenottine of the black eyes." "Ah, she, the Duke's Daughter v'la, that is a flower of a lady!
Gettin' 'em's quite another," Tom suggested. The voice of one of the trappers rose in protest. "By gar, it iss what you call dirt cheap. I make you a present. V'la!" "Got to bore through difficulties," Beresford said. "Then you're liable to bump into disappointment. But you can't ever tell till you try." His friend began to catch the drift of the officer's purpose.
"Tiens, tiens!" cried the soldier, "v'la qui parle le Francais peu s'en faut," and he seated himself by Gerard, and in a moment was talking volubly of war, women, and pillage, interlarding his discourse with curious oaths, at which Gerard drew away from him more or less.
"Oh, these Frenchwomen!" he muttered, while his imagination lost itself in considerations somewhat more elevated, as he made comparisons and projects. "Quoi v'la tous les cancans d'la s'maine!" sang Gertrude, a proud damsel, who was looking roguishly askance at the Captain-General.
On the farther side of this they stopped, hand in hand, at the woods' fringe, and awaited us in a startlingly sudden repose. "V'la le gran'pere," said they in unison. At the words a huge gaunt man clad in shirt and jeans arose and confronted us.
The day you dismissed me, I saw her at the cupboard. I found the will and started with it to M'sieu' Fournel. She followed. You remember when she went eh? On business and such business! she and Havel and the old slut Marie. You remember, eh; Louis?" he added with unnamable insolence. The Seigneur inclined his head. "V'la! they followed me, overtook me, and Havel shot me in the wrist.
Then Blake heard a sound which puzzled him. It was not the quick patter of a dog team, nor the sliding fall of netted shoes. The noise was dull and heavy, and as the snow would deaden it, whoever was coming could not be far away. "Bob-sled!" Emile exclaimed with scorn. "V'la la belle chose! Arrive ze great horse of ze plow."
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