Belle Rose: A Romance of the Cloak and Sword — page 324: what you’re looking at

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306 OVER HILLS AND ACROSS VALLEYS, without further delay. He went immediately to seek out Déroute, who was amusing himself by making citadels of turf with his friend Grippard and to afterward take them according to all the rules of military strategy. He found him in a corner of the convent, where he had just opened the trench before a bastion. ‘*Hey! Déroute! the Bishop of Mantes arrives to-morrow evening; we will make arrangements to leave to-morrow evening,’’ he said to him. Déroute overthrew the bastion with a kick of his foot and threw his hat in the air, crying: ‘* Vive le roi!”’ CHAPTER XLVI. OVER HILLS AND ACROSS VALLEYS. Since he had attached himself to the fortunes of Belle- Rose, Déroute had contracted a taste for adventures. The reader need not be astonished then if the captain’s proposi- tion delighted him. “You know, Déroute, that to-morrow is the day on which the Bishop of Mantes is accustomed to come each week to the abbey?’’ said Belle-Rose. ‘Yes, captain.’’ — ‘‘Monseigneur is ordinarily accompanied by a numerous following.’’ ‘“‘There are secretaries in surplices and grooms in high boots, vicars in cassocks, and lackeys in livery, the former in carriages and the latter behind. ’’ ‘*So that when all this crowd goes away, no one thinks of examining people closely.’’ ‘*It would be a difficult task.’’ ‘*‘Well, then, I must be one of those who leave the abbey to-morrow evening with monseigneur.’”’ ~ And with the livery upon the back, so that the dress shall assist the monk to pass.’’ 66 Yes. 9? ; ‘*That can be arranged.’’ ‘‘Then you charge yourself with it?’’ ‘““Very willingly. There is in the suite a certain coach- man who likes to talk war and battles with me. I will relate to him ten sieges and twenty assaults; at the fourth skirmish he will be drunk; when the time comes to blow up the mine he will roll under the table, and I will undress him at the article of capitulation.’’ ; ¥ t Fy: a zZ