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Ventregris, the girl stares as if I had said Sir Bevis of Southampton, or Sir Guy of Warwick! I knew this young gentleman's father before the troubles an honest man, though he took the wrong side He paid for his perversity with his life; so we'll say requiescat. The young man is a fine young man, whom I would fain have something nearer to me than he is.
"Have you given thought to the matter of Captain d'Aubran?" he asked, his voice an impatient snarl. "Yes, monsieur, I have pondered it all morning." "Well? And what have you concluded?" "Helas! monsieur, nothing." Tressan smote the table before him a blow that shook some of the dust out of the papers that cumbered it. "Ventregris! How am I served?
I have ridden from Paris, and that means close upon a week in the saddle no little thing to a man who has acquired certain habits of life and developed a taste for certain minor comforts which he is very reluctant to forgo. I have fed and slept at inns, living on the worst of fares and sleeping on the hardest, and hardly the cleanest, of beds. Ventregris!
"Fate sends an infernal cut-throat to murder our good king whose soul God rest eternally! And since his son is of an age too tender to wield the sceptre, the boy's mother does it in his name. Thus, I, a soldier, being subject to the head of the State, find myself, by no devising of my own, subject to a woman. "In itself that is bad enough. Too bad, indeed Ventregris! too bad.
But, Ventregris! to ruin me to to " He fell silent for very want of words; just gaped and gasped, and then, with hands folded upon his paunch, he set himself to pace the chamber. Madame de Condillac stood watching him, her face composed, her glance cold. She was like some stalwart oak, weathering with unshaken front a hurricane.
"Not for worlds, sir, would I owe to authority what love cannot freely grant " "Don't chop logic, Denzil. You want my daughter; and by God you shall have her! Win her with pretty speeches if you can. If she turn stubborn she shall have plain English from me. I have promised not to force her inclination; but if I am driven to harsh measures 'twill be for her own good I am severe. Ventregris!
The good work led us over a region for ever associated with British arms. Some of the towns brought bitter memories of that anxious August three years back. Thus Nimporte, which saw a desperate but successful stand on one flank of the contemptible little army to gain time for the main body; Ventregris, scene of a cavalry charge that was a glorious tragedy; L
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