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"About la tete of de village near de house of Monsieur Gambart." "What like a place is it?" asked McLeod, becoming suddenly much more interested. "Oh! one place mos bootiful," replied Le Rue, with enthusiasm; "de house is superb, de grounds splendeed, et le prospect magnifique, wid plenty of duck perhaps sometimes goose, vild vons in von lac near cliff immense."
This ignorance was owing to a fancy of my friend, Mr Gambart, to conceal the name from me a fancy which I am still unable to account for, but which doubtless can be explained by himself. "Well, father, that clears up the matter sufficiently, doesn't it?" said Kenneth.
Several months after the events narrated in the last chapter a very merry party was assembled in Mr William Gambart's drawing-room at Partridge Bay. The party was small, by reason of the drawing-room not being large, but it was very select and remarkably hearty. Plump little Gambart was there, beaming with good-will.
"It is my opinion," said Mr Gambart, as he carefully unfolded the plan, "that you may find the McLeods have trespassed somewhat on your reserves, for, if my memory serves me rightly, there is a small islet as you see here just in the centre of the creek, half of which belongs to you." "I see it," said the fur-trader, earnestly gazing on the dot which represented the said island.
Jonas Bellew accepted the invitation. At once he sat down, and ate in silence heartily, while the elder McLeod read the letter. "Have you bad news?" asked Ian, as he watched his father's face. "Not exactly bad, but it's disappointing. This is from Gambart. Listen.
The history of the next known planet-like comet has proved of even more curious interest than that of the first. It was discovered by an Austrian officer named Wilhelm von Biela at Josephstadt in Bohemia, February 27, 1826, and ten days later by the French astronomer Gambart at Marseilles.
Mr Gambart was a cheerful, healthy, plump little man, with a plump little wife, and three plump little daughters. Plumpness was not only a characteristic of the Gambarts, but also of their surroundings, for the cottage in which they dwelt had a certain air of plumpness about it, and the spot on which it stood was a round little knob of a hill.
In addition to those already referred to, a number of mysterious dark spots were discovered by Schmidt in the dusky region about midway between Copernicus and Gambart, which Klein describes as perforated like a sieve with minute craters. A short distance south-west of Copernicus stands a bright crater-cone surrounded by a grey nimbus, which may be classed with these objects.
A messenger he indeed proved to be, for after casting a furtive look, not unmingled with surprise and suspicion, at his brother redskin, he opened a small bag which hung at his girdle, and delivered to McLeod senior a very dirty-looking letter. "Ha! from Gambart," he exclaimed, reading the inscription. "Let us see what Hallo! Sharpeye, where are you off to?"
It was carried to England and to America, and won admiration wherever it was seen. Finally it was sold in America. It was first exhibited in 1853, the year in which the artist's father died. Mr. Ernest Gambart was the first who bought the picture, and he wrote of it to his friend, Mr. S.P. Avery: "I will give you the real history of 'The Horse Fair, now in New York.
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