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been you with the cold steel in your bowels�察�and there would have been
me�察�linking in the streets�察�with an armful of golden cups� �Did you suppose
I hadn't wit enough to see that�拭�and I scorned the action。 There are your
damned goblets�察 �as safe as in a church�察 �there are you�察 �with your heart
ticking as good as new�察�and here am I�察�ready to go out again as poor as I
came in�察�with my one white that you threw in my teeth� �And you think I
have no sense of honourGod strike me dead� ─�
The old man stretched out his right arm。 ;I will tell you what you are�察─�
he said。 ;You are a rogue�察�my man�察�an impudent and black´hearted rogue
and vagabond。 I have passed an hour with you。 Oh�察 �believe me�察 �I feel
myself disgraced� �And you have eaten and drunk at my table。 But now I
am sick at your presence�察�the day has come�察�and the night´bird should be
off to his roost。 Will you go before�察�or after�拭─�
;Which you please�察─ �returned the poet�察 �rising。 ;I believe you to be
strictly honourable。; He thoughtfully emptied his cup。 ;I wish I could add
you were intelligent�察─�he went on�察�knocking on his head with his knuckles。
;Age� �age� �the brains stiff and rheumatic。;
The old man preceded him from a point of self´respect�察 �Villon
followed�察�whistling�察�with his thumbs in his girdle。
;God pity you�察─�said the lord of Brisetout at the door。
;Good´bye�察�papa�察─�returned Villon�察�with a yawn。 ;Many thanks for the
cold mutton。;
The door closed behind him。 The dawn was breaking over the white
roofs。 A chill�察�uncomfortable morning ushered in the day。 Villon stood and
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heartily stretched himself in the middle of the road。
;A very dull old gentleman�察─�he thought。 ;I wonder what his goblets
may be worth�拭─�
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A LEAF IN THE STORM
BY OUIDA
The Berceau de Dieu was a little village in the valley of the Seine。 As
a lark drops its nest among the grasses�察 �so a few peasant people had
dropped their little farms and cottages amid the great green woods on the
winding river。 It was a pretty place�察 �with one steep�察 �stony street�察 �shady
with poplars and with elms�察�quaint houses�察�about whose thatch a cloud of
white and gray pigeons fluttered all day long�察�a little aged chapel with a
conical red roof�察�and great barns covered with ivy and thick creepers�察�red
and purple�察�and lichens that were yellow in the sun。 All around it were the
broad�察�flowering meadows�察�with the sleek cattle of Normandy fattening in
them�察�and the sweet dim forests where the young men and maidens went
on every holy day and feast´day in the summer´time to seek for wood´
anemones�察�and lilies of the pools�察�and the wild campanula�察�and the fresh
dog´rose�察�and all the boughs and grasses that made their house´doors like
garden bowers�察�and seemed to take the cushat's note and the linnet's song
into their little temple of God。
The Berceau de Dieu was very old indeed。 Men said that the hamlet
had been there in the day of the Virgin of Orleans�察�and a stone cross of the
twelfth century still stood by the great pond of water at the bottom of the
street under the chestnut´tree�察 �where the villagers gathered to gossip at
sunset when their work was done。 It had no city near it�察 �and no town
nearer than four leagues。 It was in the green care of a pastoral district�察�
thickly wooded and intersected with orchards。 Its produce of wheat and
oats and cheese and fruit and eggs was more than sufficient for its simple
prosperity。 Its people were hardy�察 �kindly�察 �laborious�察 �happy�察 �living round
the little gray chapel in amity and good´fellowship。 Nothing troubled it。
War and rumours of war�察�revolutions and counter´revolutions�察�empires and
insurrections�察�military and political questionsthese all were for it things
unknown and unheard of�察�mighty winds that arose and blew and swept the
lands around it�察�but never came near enough to harm it�察�lying there�察�as it
did in its loneliness like any lark's nest。 Even in the great days of the
Revolution it had been quiet。 It had had a lord whom it loved in the old
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castle on the hill at whose feet it nestled�察�it had never tried to harm him�察�
and it had wept bitterly when he had fallen at Jemmapes�察�and left no heir�察�
and the chateau had crumbled into ivy´hung ruins。 The thunder´heats of
that dread time had scarcely scorched it。 It had seen a few of its best youth
march away to the chant of the Marseillaise to fight on the plains of
Champagne�察�and it had been visited by some patriots in /bonnets rouges/
and soldiers in blue uniforms�察�who had given it tricoloured cockades and
bade it wear them in the holy name of the Republic one and indivisible。
But it had not known what these meant�察�and its harvests had been reaped
without the sound of a shot in its fields or any gleam of steel by its
innocent hearths�察 �so that the terrors and the tidings of those noble and
ghastly years had left no impress on its generations。
Reine Allix�察 �indeed�察 �the oldest woman among them all�察 �numbering
more than ninety years�察 �remembered when she was a child hearing her
father and his neighbours talk in low�察�awe´stricken tones one bitter wintry
night of how a king had been slain to save the people�察 �and she
remembered likewiseremembered it well�察 �because it had been her
betrothal night and the sixteenth birthday of her lifehow a horseman had
flashed through the startled street like a comet�察�and had called aloud�察�in a
voice of fire�察 �/Gloire� �gloire� �gloire��/Marengo� �Marengo� �Marengo� ─�
and how the village had dimly understood that something marvellous for
France had happened afar off�察�and how her brothers and her cousins and
her betrothed�察�and she with them�察�had all gone up to the high slope over
the river�察�and had piled up a great pyramid of pine wood and straw and
dried mosses�察 �and had set flame to it�察 �till it had glowed in its scarlet
triumph all through that wondrous night of the sultry summer of victory。
These and the like memories she would sometimes
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