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Observing the emphasis with which Lockley mentioned tobacco, he understood at once that the skipper did not want his men to drink, and laid his snares accordingly. "Com'," he said, in a confidential tone, taking hold of Lockley's arm, "com' b'low, an' you shall zee de tabac, an' smell him yourself."
Dorothea put out a hand against the jamb of the surgery door, to steady herself She heard the smack of a palm below and some one uttered a serio-comic groan. "Enfoncé! Il m'a parié dix sous qu'elle viendrait avant le jour de Pan, et aussi du tabac avec tout le Numero Six. Nous en ferons la dot de Mademoiselle!" The fellow burst out singing "J'ai du bon tabac Dans ma tabatière."
We have not a single shop in the whole handful of houses excepting the 'tabac et timbres' establishment where jalap and lollipops are sold likewise and one hovel, the owner of which calls himself, on its outside, 'Cordonnier': yet there is this 'Hotel' and an auberge or two serving to house travellers who are dismissed from the Convent at times inconvenient for reaching Grenoble; or so I suppose.
"The grizzly comes on you bold and strong; you know your danger right away, and have it out. So. But the puma comes God, how the puma comes!" He broke off, his eyes burning bright under his bushy brows and his body arranging itself into an attitude of expectation and alertness. "You have travelled far. The sun goes down. You build a fire and cook your meat, and then good tea and the tabac.
One night, shortly after his reception and restoration, he was sitting in the store silently smoking the Company's tabac. Sergeant Gellatly entered. Little Hammer rose, offered his hand, and muttered, "How!"
He keel Canif and Ligan, and he would me haf keeled to save zee guns and blankets and zee tea and tabac, dog dat he ees!" "Perhaps it was not the price he was saving," said Anderton. "Perhaps he was afraid that the story would be told and that the mounters would seek out his trail, Chigmok?" "By gar! Yees, I never tink of dat," cried the half-breed as if a light had broken on him suddenly.
"We'll take your offer, if we can fix it up about payment, for I have no money with me and barely two hundred dollars at the cabin." "You half tabac and grosairs?" "Yes, plenty." "You can go 'get 'em? Si?" Rolf paused, looked down, then straight at the Frenchman. "Will you trust me to take half the fur now; when I come back with the pay I can get the rest."
Down on the quay there were no custom-house officers to inspect the baggage of the few travellers who had come across the Channel and now landed on the deserted siding, bewildered because there were no porters to clamour for their trunks and no douane to utter the familiar ritual of "Avez-vous quelque-chose a declarer? Tabac? Cigarettes?"
They had some idea of barter, for when they found they had received all that they were likely to get gratuitously, they held up bows and arrows, wicker baskets, birds, and the large sea-urchins, which are an article of food with them. Even after the steamer had started, they still clung to the side, praying, shrieking, screaming, for more "tabac."
When he go 'long de street, everybody say, 'Ah, dere go de good Mathurin! He laugh, he tell story, he smoke leetla tabac, he take leetla white wine behin' de door; dat is nosing non. "He have in de parish five, ten, twenty children all call Mathurin; he is godfadder with dem yes. So he go about with plenty of sugar and sticks of candy in his pocket.
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