"The house, indeed!" growled the
Sentinel. "Have you never seen a Palace in your life?
Hold your tongue." He turned to the
sentinel and added in German, "Draw the curtain again; and if the woman persists, put her back into this room with your own hand."
Beyond one of the
sentinels nobody was in sight; the railroad ran straight away into a forest for a hundred yards, then, curving, was lost to view.
The ape-man stood so concealed in a clump of bushes that he could watch the interior of the room without being seen from within, while he was at the same time hidden from the view of anyone who might chance to pass along the post of the
sentinel he had slain.
The venerable councillors could not assemble to consult about the welfare of the province without being challenged by
sentinels and passing among the bayonets of the British soldiers.
On preparing the morning's meal, however, a number of cups, knives, and other articles were missing, which had, doubtless, been carried off by the fictitious elk, during the slumber of the very sagacious
sentinel. As the Indians had gone off in the direction which the trappers had intended to travel, the latter changed their route, and pushed forward rapidly through the "Bad Pass," nor halted until night; when, supposing themselves out of the reach of the enemy, they contented themselves with tying up their horses and posting a guard.
As the town clock of Newcastle struck one the sleeper awoke, and with all the gestures of a man rousing himself out of deep sleep he looked attentively about him; perceiving that he was alone he rose and making a little circuit passed close to the cavalier who was speaking to the
sentinel. The former had no doubt finished his questions, for a moment later he said good-night and carelessly followed the same path taken by the first cavalier.
Fouquet gained ground, regardless of the cries of the man, who, however, having at last come up with Fouquet, called out to the
sentinel of the second gate, "Look out, look out,
sentinel!" The man crossed his pike before the minister; but the latter, robust and active, and hurried away, too, by his passion, wrested the pike from the soldier and struck him a violent blow on the shoulder with it.
He saw that the walls were poorly
sentineled, but they were sufficiently high to render an attempt to scale them foredoomed to failure.
Picking up the musket, he is about to execute summary justice, as emperors are in the habit of doing, when something in the face of the weary
sentinel appears to touch him.
"We are through the line of
sentinels. Everything depends on speed.
The soldier made a low and humble acknowledgment for her civility; and Heyward adding a "Bonne nuit, mon camarade," they moved deliberately forward, leaving the
sentinel pacing the banks of the silent pond, little suspecting an enemy of so much effrontery, and humming to himself those words which were recalled to his mind by the sight of women, and, perhaps, by recollections of his own distant and beautiful France: "Vive le vin, vive l'amour," etc., etc.