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The Wheezy's bony hand was on hers, the Wheezy's tears were falling. "Why under the shining canopy I didn't know who you was " she muttered apologetically, "My soul, I guess it's because I can't half see!" "No, it's because " Felicia sighed, "I'm not really that little girl any more. Only the Happy Part of her is here " she put her hand on her breast. "I'm really old like Grandy like Piqueur.
"I I will see that you get what you wish, Miss Felicia " he capitulated. "You do not need to ask any one else about it I'm glad to do you the favor " And all the way across the Pine Plains to the station he questioned Piqueur as to whether the Major or Felice had had any visitors. But Piqueur, who had always hated the lawyer, cunningly evaded the cross- examination.
"Sire, in passing through Blois, a word, a sad word, echoed from the palace, struck my ear." "In truth, you terrify me, M. d'Artagnan." "Sire, this word was pronounced to me by a piqueur, who wore crape on his arm." "My uncle, Gaston of Orleans, perhaps." "Sire, he has rendered his last sigh."
She doubled her little fist and shook it toward the candle, flickering low in its socket. "That's what has hidden the garden," she murmured, "that's why I can't see it " she wrinkled her nose in disgust. " Abundance-of-weeds Piqueur and Bele will settle you!" All through the verdant spring, all through the quick hot summer the girl puzzled over the unanswered riddle the scheme of the garden.
The hounds have been on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Mesmer, or Saint Hubert in the Ardennes, or some other holy intercessor who has made a speciality of the health of hunting-dogs. In the grey dawn the game was turned and the branch broken by our best piqueur. A rare day's hunting lies before us. Wind a jolly flourish, sound the bien-aller with all your lungs.
And the Major, standing after he had filled Felice's glass, lifted his own high: "Felicia," he said slowly, "We will drink to your home coming " It was all so, strange that she did not notice until Piqueur set a dish of custard before her that all the silver with which she was eating was marked with the same odd mark that had adorned her silver drinking mug back in the nursery in Brooklyn.
"Piqueur," she cried entreatingly "tell me just what it says that song you sing." But it was Margot who leaned on her hoe and looked up at the girl and laughed.
But on hearing from the piqueur that the monarch of all he surveyed was waiting in the carriage, he flew to open the gate, disclosing his scanty night-attire. The funniest part of it was that, as soon as he realized the situation, he thought it his duty to show his patriotism, so he stood on the steps of his lodge and, as we passed through the gate, he chanted a hoarse and sleepy!
The huntsman sprang into an archway and in an instant returned, mounted upon a strong black horse, followed by a piqueur also mounted. "Ah!" she cried joyously, "speed Glemarec Rene! speed! speed all! Sound thy horn, Sieur Piriou!"
"If I had one he would have three hundred thousand livres," said Planchet. "Humph! you must have one, then," said Athos, phlegmatically, "if only to prevent your little fortune being lost." This word little fortune placed Planchet in his rank, like the voice of the sergeant when Planchet was but a piqueur in the regiment of Piedmont, in which Rochefort had placed him.
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