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I was tried ten days after by a military commission, and acquitted. My own evidence was my accusation and my defence." "Ventrebleu! had I been on the court-martial, you had not been here to tell the story," said the old major, as his face became almost purple with passion. "Nonsense!" said Tascher, jeeringly. "What signifies a maître d'armes the more or the less?"
She was an English eighty-gun ship; the 'Blanche' they called her. Ventrebleu! I didn't know how they ever got so handsome a model; but, I learned after, she was a French ship, and built at Toulon, for you see, Comrades, they never had such craft as ours.
Laugh, sir! Mort de ma vie! Who will dare to laugh? When you are dead, of what should they be afraid? Morbleu! That's true. He would be a rash fool who should dare to laugh at you while you are living. Foi d'un honnete homme, monsieur, you are a man of honour: a gentleman. You are brave yourself, and know how to honour brave men, and I esteem you. Sir, if you really esteem me Ventrebleu!
"D'know," said Oncle Jazon, resuming his habitual expression of droll dignity, "she shot apast me jes' as thet thing busted loose, an' she went like er hummin' bird, skitch! jes' thet way an' I didn't see 'r no more. 'Cause I was skeert mighty nigh inter seven fits; 'spect that 'splosion blowed her clean away! Ventrebleu! never was so plum outen breath an' dead crazy weak o' bein' afeard!"
'But why did you use it at all? 'I didn't. If I had, it would have been because he drew his against me. 'And why should he have done so? 'Ventrebleu! for as many reasons as there are craft in the harbor. 'For example? 'Well, that I should have got a place in a ship's company that he was trying for. 'Such things as that? is it possible? 'Oh, for smaller things.
"VENTREBLEU!" cried d'Artagnan, rising from the table, the story of the present day making him forget that of the preceding one. "Patience!" said Athos; "I had a plan. The Englishman was an original; I had seen him conversing that morning with Grimaud, and Grimaud had told me that he had made him proposals to enter into his service. I staked Grimaud, the silent Grimaud, divided into ten portions."
Beverley commanded; but he could not check the wild jeering and laughing, while the bruised and frightened scouts hastily erected their ladder again, fairly tumbling over one another in their haste to ascend, and so cleared the wall, falling into the stockade to join the garrison. "Ventrebleu!" shrieked Oncle Jazon.
"Ventrebleu!" quoth the Bastard, when extricated from the weight of his steed, "I cannot hold by the clouds, but though my horse failed me, surely I will not fail my companions;" and as he spoke, he placed himself in so gallant and superb a posture, that he silenced the inhospitable yell which had rejoiced in the foreigner's discomfiture.
"I saw him at Elkankah, where one of ours was unhorsed by a Mameluke, spring forward, and seizing a pistol at the holster, shoot the Turk through the head, and then kneel down beside the dying man he was with before, and go on with his prayers. Ventrebleu! that's what I call discipline." "Where was that, Comrade?" "At Elkankah."
"Ventrebleu!" and it WAS ventrebleu with him, I warrant you; for bleu, in the French language, means "through;" and ventre why, you see, ventre means 'pon my faith, now
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