Читать книгу The Young Seigneur - W. D. Lighthall - Страница 10
"MALBROUCK IS DEAD!"
ОглавлениеA pause follows.
"It is not true" one forcibly contradicts.
"Yes, he is dead!" reiterates the first.
"It is not true!" insists the other.
"He is dead and in his bier!"
The second is incredulous:
"You but tell me that to jeer?"
But the crowd who have been smiling gleefully over the proceedings, affect to resign themselves to the bad news of Malbrouck's death, and all altogether groan in hoarse bass mockery:
