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Leaning back, and heaving his knee up and down, the big man continued to serenely bellow his nursery refrain:
"Ha! Pieter von Donck! Pieter von Donck! 'Tis as cunning an old rogue as ever wore shoe-leather!"
"Funny man! Do it again," chirruped Geoffrey Viner the younger.
CHAPTER x.x.xVIII.
VALEDICTORY.
And now in the days when the world is small, and s.h.i.+ps of iron rush to and fro upon the seas, and the sword has become a burden, and the mightier plowshare ripples the plain, gone are the golden lilies, gone the power of the soutane rouge, gone the House of Bourbon; and two small islands of the gulf, St. Pierre and Miquelon, bound by their rocks and beaten by the waves, gather the harvest of the sea under the lion's protection, and mourn in their loneliness over that proud supremacy which has pa.s.sed away for ever.
