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He carried a small fiddle and spoke volubly without regarding the presence of Miles. "Oh, these cochons of English, my dear," he exclaimed to Peggy, "so steef so wood-steef in the limbs. Wis 'em I kin do noozzn', no, not a leetle bit. Zey would make ze angils swear. Ah, mon Dieu, quel dommage I haf to teach zem."
She looked at him in doubtful recognition, for the face was grim and cold and there was a look of hard steel in the eyes. Then she glanced in terror at one of the soldiers who was marching back and forth, rifle in hand. "He won't interfere he won't even dare to salute me. If he comes near I'll knock him down. Is your mother here?" "She iss wiz ze friends in Leteur. Her zey do not take."
In Newfoun'land, so some one tell me, zey run as big as sixty and seventy feet, but in Santa Cat'lina, four or five feet from ze tail to ze end of ze arms is as long a one as I have seen, I t'ink." "I'd like to go catching squid, just to see how it's done," said the boy. "The squid I've seen on the Atlantic coast don't often grow bigger than twelve inches."
Then he whispered something in his ear, handed it back, and Pedro gave it to Gilbert. "Ze ranger. Zey come," he said as he did so. "Bueno. I go," said Lopez, and started toward the door. Then he turned to Gilbert. "Astuavago adios. Maybe we will meet again, maybe no. Quien sabe?" He waved his hand, gave one last look at Pell's limp form, and cried, "Adios!" He was gone vanished like a ghost.
So zese men, zey swear zey will stand by each other, forever zese seventy. You see? Even in poor Alsace and in Lorraine. So zese, ze haf' make from a piece of ze cannon. You see? If once you can get across ze Zherman lines into Alsace, zis will find you friends and shelter. Ah, but you must be careful. You see? You must watch for zis button and when you see zen you can show zis.
But the scarcity of these was somewhat compensated by the rich and brilliant colouring of the foliage. The abundance and variety of the ferns also struck the youth particularly. "Ah! zey are magnificent!" exclaimed Verkimier with enthusiasm. "Look at zat tree-fern. You have not'ing like zat in England eh! I have found nearly von hoondred specimens of ferns. Zen, look at zee fruit-trees.
One that made him mad and one that made him glad and that he was proud of. The licking that his brother had got, when he could, as he had told honest Pete Connigan, "feel the madness way down in his fingers." And the licking his father had given him for not hanging out the flag. "Zey must be all fine people to haf' such a boy," Frenchy had said. He hoped he would not see Frenchy now.
"I tell you, you 'ave got ze wrong poodle it is my own dog, my Azor! He remember me well, you see? I lose him, it is three, four days. . . . I see a nottice zat he is found, and ven I go to ze address zey tell me, 'Oh, he is reclaim, he is gone viz a strangaire who has advertise. Zey show me ze placard; I follow 'ere, and ven I arrive I see my poodle in ze garden before me!"
"See, I will give you ziss," he said, handing Tom the little iron button. "I haf' two see? I will tell you about zis," he added, drawing close and holding it so that Tom could see. "It is made from ze cannon in my pappa's regiment. Zis is when Alsace and Lorraine were lost you see? Zey swear zey would win or die together and so zey all die except seventy.
My friend, the blow come soon; I go to the army of the republic this to-night. 'The men are rolling up all right, said a digger at another table. 'They're rallying them at Creswick again, and on the other fields. We'll have an army of thousands in a week. 'A week! cried the waiter. 'My soul! in two day more et will all be up wiss ze republic, suppose zey are not here!
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