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They stunned him for a moment, and then presently, as if in defiance of his own thoughts, he began to sing softly: "Malbrouk s'en va t'en guerre." Suddenly, in one confused moment, he was seized, and a hand was clapped over his mouth. Three French soldiers had him in their grip-stalwart fellows they were, of the Regiment of Bearn.
Delgarno and his twenty-gun frigate so terrified the Salē rovers, that they never ventured forth while he was about, and mothers used to quiet naughty children by saying that Delgarno was coming for them, just as Napoleon and "Malbrouk" were used as bugbears in England and France.
I should like to see them fricasseed by the French! What a mortal thrashing you will give them!" and the brave lad sighed to think he should not be present at the battue. George sate down to the harpsichord and played and sang "Malbrouk s'en va-t-en guerre, Mironton, mironton, mirontaine," at the sound of which music the gentleman from the balcony entered.
We cannot think or act, but the soul of some man, who has lived before, points the way. The dead never die, especially since " "Since what, boy? You speak well." "Since our great ancestor introduced printing," said I, majestically. My uncle whistled "Malbrouk s'en va-t-en guerre." I had not the heart to plague him further. "Peace!" said I, creeping cautiously within the circle of the stick. "No!
M. Benassis, it was so very warm out here, and it is so nice to feel warm! I am always cold. I felt so happy that without thinking I began to try over Malbrouk s'en va-t-en guerre, just for fun, and then I began to listen to myself because my voice was something like the sound of the flute your shepherd plays." "Well, my poor Jacques, this must not happen again; do you hear?
"You seem quite to forget, my friend, that these English once had a general called Marlborough," said Isidore. "O yes, they once had," retorted Boulanger; "but as the famous old song says 'Monsieur Malbrouk est mort, Est mort et enterré. Malbrouk is dead and buried at all events, and will not frighten us any more.
I comprehended that I could live on the roofs with an amazing creature who came from that country where the inhabitants consoled themselves for the victories of the greatest English general by these words: Malbrouk s'en va-t-en guerre, Mironton, TON, TON, MIRONTAINE! Nevertheless I awakened my lord, told him how late it was, and suggested that we ought to go in.
To while away the time he began to whistle to himself, and what with whistling, and what with winking and talking to the lantern on the table, and calling himself painful names, he endured his captivity well enough. It was near midnight when the lock turned in the door and presently stepped inside a girl. "Malbrouk s'en va t'en guerre," said she, and nodded her head to him humorously.
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