Feu-Follet

Although it has not been deemed necessary to relate them, the reader will understand that all the details required by the law had been observed as regards these trials; the promptitude of the proceedings being partly characteristic of the decision of the admiral, but more in consequence of a wish to use the charges against the delinquents as a means of seizing the true hero of our tale, the little Feu-Follet.

The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet James Fenimore Cooper 1820

The weather became thicker, and all traces of le Feu-Follet were lost.

The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet James Fenimore Cooper 1820

"To that of le Feu-Follet, or ze Ving-y-Ving," put in Griffin, who, now he had got the two functionaries fairly afloat, spared none of the jokes that come so easy and natural to a man-of-war's man.

The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet James Fenimore Cooper 1820

Feu-Follet tacked, quite eight miles distant from the spot where she altered her direction, and far enough to windward to lay her course in directly for the cliffs beneath the village of St. Agata, or the present residence of Ghita.

The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet James Fenimore Cooper 1820

As le Feu-Follet was now in dangerous proximity to three cruisers of the enemy, the moment was one that called for decision.

The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet James Fenimore Cooper 1820

The two vessels, at that critical instant, were about half a mile apart, le Feu-Follet bearing directly off the Proserpine's weather-bow.

The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet James Fenimore Cooper 1820

As he said this he touched a rocket, of which he had several in the boat, with the lighted end of the cigar he had been smoking, and it went hissing up into the air, ascending so high as to be plainly visible from the deck of le Feu-Follet before it exploded.

The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet James Fenimore Cooper 1820

The hawsers of the lugger were cut, and le Feu-Follet started back like an affrighted steed.

The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet James Fenimore Cooper 1820

As the Proserpine was quite a league off in the Canal, le Feu-Follet, which sailed so much the fastest in light winds, had abundance of time to effect her object.

The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet James Fenimore Cooper 1820

If a large or a lofty vessel, of course he must be materially further off, and if a large or lofty vessel it could not be le Feu-Follet.

The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet James Fenimore Cooper 1820