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Updated: May 25, 2025
When at last my head touched the pillow, in a trice I was with Zephyrine, riding the boundless Sahara, cheek to cheek, the world well lost; while at times, through the sand-clouds that encircled us, glimmered the eyes of Coralie, touched, one fancied, with something of a tender reproach.
"'Villager, I replied, walking towards the grating, 'I do not understand Italian; speak French, and I shall be happy to answer. "'What! Is it you, M. Louet? exclaimed the peasant. "'Yes, it is, said I; 'but how do you know my name? "'Hush! I am Ernest, the hussar officer, your travelling companion. "'M. Ernest! Ah! Mademoiselle Zephyrine will be delighted.
'Tis you, then, who betrayed us? "'M. Louet! cried Zephyrine, 'if you are a man, help me! "I saw the blade of a poniard glitter. I had no weapon, but I seized my bass by the handle, and, raising it in the air, let it fall with such violence on the captain's skull, that the back of the instrument was smashed in and the bandit's head disappeared in the interior of the bass.
A young officer of French hussars, and four Italians, are his travelling companions. The former, on learning his name and profession, asks him sundry questions about a certain Mademoiselle Zephyrine, formerly a dancer at the Marseilles theatre, and in whom he seems to take a strong interest. Bad springs and worse roads render it very difficult to sleep.
The more he reflected the less he liked the prospect, and as at that moment an eddy in the crowd began to draw him in the direction of the door, he suffered it to carry him away without resistance. The eddy stranded him in a corner under the gallery, where his ear was immediately struck with the voice of Madame Zephyrine.
Zephyrine was somewhat more distinguished in appearance and deportment than Pelagie and Suzette, but in character genuine Parisian coquette, perfidious, mercenary, and dry-hearted.
Mr. Scuddamore was moved to a very acute feeling of annoyance; he condemned Madame Zéphyrine unmercifully: he even blamed himself; but when he found, next day, that she had taken no means to baulk him of his favourite pastime, he continued to profit by her carelessness, and gratify his idle curiosity.
But it appears I was doomed to witness engagements both by land and sea. "'The firing is coming nearer, said Zephyrine. "'I am afraid so, Mademoiselle, answered I. "'On the contrary, you ought to be delighted. It is a sign that the robbers are flying. "'I had rather they fled in another direction.
From this, and a few words which she takes an opportunity of saying to him, he finds that she is an opera-dancer named Zephyrine, who had had an engagement a year or two previously at the Marseilles theatre.
Master and men had a sort of fancy costume, which allowed them to wear a couteau-de-chasse. The captain saw that I remarked all these precautions. "'The police is shocking in this country, M. Louet, said he, 'and there are so many bad characters about, that it is well to be armed. "Mademoiselle Zephyrine looked charming in her riding-habit and hat.
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