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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...also, only he was not quite certain that what Father Billot had said with regard to offensive weapons extended to defensive accouterments. But, while thus arming himself, Pitou directed his ears toward the Place Vendome. "Ho, ho!" said he, "it appears to me that the Royal Germans are coming this way again." And, in fact, the noise of a troop of horsemen returning at a foot-pace could be heard. Pitou peeped from behind the corner of the coffee-house called La Regence, and perceived, at about the distance of the market of St. Honore, a patrol of dragoons advancing, with their musketdons in hand. "Oh, quick, quick! " cried Pitou, "here they are, coming back again." Billot cast his eyes around him, to see if there was any means of offering resistance. There was scaredy a person in the square. "Let us go, then," said he, "to the College of Louis-le-Grand." And he went up the Rue do Chartres, followed btv Pitou, who, not knowing the use of the hook upon his belt, was dragging his long saber after him. "A thousand thunders!' exclaimed Billot; "why, you look like a dealer in old iron. Fasten me up that lath there." "But how?" asked Pitou. "Why, so, by Heaven!--there!" said Billot. And he hooked Pitou's long saber up to his belt, which enabled the latter to walk with more celerity than he could have done but for this expedient. They pursued their way without meeting with any impediment, till they reached the Place Louis XV.; but there Billot and Pitou fell in with the column which had left them to proceed to the Iuvalides, and which had been stopped short in its progress. "Well!" cried Billot, "what is the matter?" ' The matter is, that we cannot go acr...
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- PublisherRarebooksclub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1231138734
- ISBN 13 9781231138731
- BindingPaperback
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