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He said to the youngest ... 'You will come back to-morrow.'" 100, 7. _un echo du temps passe_--an echo of the olden times. 100, 11. _esprit Gaulois_--old French wit. 100, 20. "_Sur votre parole d'honneur, avez-vous chante?_"--"On your word of honor, have you sung?" 100, 22. "_Non, m'sieur!_"--"No, sir!" 100, 32. "_Oui, m'sieur!_"--"Yes, sir." 101, 5. "_Vous etes tous consignes!_"--"You are all kept in!" 101, 10. _de service_--on duty. 101, 19. "_Au moins vous avez du coeur ... sale histoire de Capucin!_"--"You at least have spirit. Promise me that you will not again sing that dirty story about the Capuchin!" 102, 24. "_Stabat mater_," etc. "By the cross, sad vigil keeping, Stood the mournful mother weeping, While on it the Saviour hung" ... 102, 30. "_Ah! ma chere Mamzelle Marceline!... Et une boussole dans l'estomac!_"--"Ah! my dear Miss Marceline, if they were only all like that little Josselin! things would go as if they were on wheels! That English youngster is as innocent as a young calf! He has God in his heart." "And a compass in his stomach!" 104, 29. "_Ah! mon cher!... Chantez-moi ca encore une fois!_"--"Ah! my dear! what wouldn't I give to see the return of a whaler at Whitby! What a 'marine' that would make! eh? with the high cliff and the nice little church on top, near the old abbey--and the red smoking roofs, and the three stone piers, and the old drawbridge--and all that swarm of watermen with their wives and children--and those fine girls who are waiting for the return of the loved one! By Jove! to think that you have seen all that, you who are not yet sixteen ... what luck! ... say--what does that really mean?--that 'Weel may the keel row!' Sing that to me once again!" 105, 21. "_Ah! vous verrez ... vous y etes, en plein!_"--"Ah! you will see, during the Easter holidays I will make such a fine picture of all that! with the evening mist that gathers, you know--and the setting sun, and the rising tide, and the moon coming up on the horizon, and the sea-mews and the gulls, and the far-off heaths, and your grandfather's lordly old manor; that's it, isn't it?" "Yes, yes, Mr. Bonzig--you are ri
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