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Men and women of his own generation used to say that save for the wrinkles ever multiplying in close cross-hatchings about his puckered eyes, and save for the enhancing of that dead gray pallor the wasp's-nest overcasting of his skin he still looked to them exactly as he had looked when he was a much younger man.
"You will each reconnoitre the gardens and search the bushes, and post a sentry before your line." "May we light our fire before starting, adjutant?" asked Clef-des-Coeurs. Gerard nodded. "There! you see, Clef-des-Coeurs," said Beau-Pied, "the adjutant's wrong to run himself into this wasp's-nest. If Hulot was in command we shouldn't be cornered here in a saucepan!"
Observing that the road where the column had halted was about to pass through a sort of gorge, short to be sure, but flanked with woods from which several paths appeared to issue, he frowned heavily, and said to his two friends, in a low voice of some emotion: "We're in a devil of a wasp's-nest." "What do you fear?" asked Gerard. "Fear? Yes, that's it, fear," returned the commandant.
Men and women of his own generation used to say that save for the wrinkles ever multiplying in close cross-hatchings about his puckered eyes, and save for the enhancing of that dead gray pallor the wasp's-nest overcasting of his skin he still looked to them exactly as he had looked when he was a much younger man.
Happily, he remembered that there was still one remaining friend, and he cried with dying accents: 'Wasp's-nest, Wasp's-nest, make a sally, Or Drakestail nevermore may rally. Hereupon the scene changes. 'Bs, bs, bayonet them! 'The brave Wasp's-nest rushes out with all his wasps.
The Prefecture, of course, is humming like a wasp's-nest with the mystery of that telegram, signed with Roddy's name and handed in at the Bourse an hour or so before he was 'burned to death. Too bad I didn't know then what I do now; if I'd even remotely suspected Greggs' association with the Pack was via Bannon.... But what's the use?
Occasionally they descried a herdsman's chalet, pitched at an angle against the wind on the edge of an arete, or clinging like a wasp's-nest to some jutting cornice of rock. After making four or five short turns, the party passed through a clump of scraggy, wind-swept pines, and suddenly found themselves at the top of Montanvert.
She takes bag and baggage, and glou, glou, glou, she takes her place between friend Fox and my friend Ladder. And 'Quack, quack, quack. Drakestail is off again singing. A little farther on he meets comrade Wasp's-nest, manoeuvring his wasps. 'Well, good-morning, friend Drakestail, said comrade Wasp's-nest, 'where are we bound for so spruce and fresh?
'I am going to the King for what he owes me. 'Oh! take me with thee! Drakestail said to himself, 'One can't have too many friends.... 'I will, says he, 'but with your battalion to drag along, you will soon be tired. Make yourself quite small, go into my throat get into my gizzard and I will carry you. 'By Jove I that's a good idea! says comrade Wasp's-nest.
In short, they are becoming more and more intimate, to the extremest degree; and, scorning the world, thank Heaven that they are mutually indispensable. Cannot we get away from this scurvy wasp's-nest of a Paris, thought they, and live to ourselves and our books? "Madame was of high quality, one of the Breteuils; but was poor in comparison, and her Husband the like.
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