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"I am afraid," she added, "that the rascal has followed me here, and will be annoying me." "Don't be afraid," I answered, "I will see what I can do." When I got to the hotel I entered the abbe's room, and by Possano's bed I saw an individual collecting lint and various surgical instruments. "What's all this? Are you ill?" "Yes, I have got something which will teach me to be wiser for the future."
The abbe could not hesitate. He drew the letter from his pocket and handing it to Martial: "Here it is, Monsieur," he said, solemnly, "remember that you have pledged the honor of your name." "I will remember it, Monsieur le Cure. Go and obtain the ropes." The abbe's sorrow and amazement were intense, when, after the baron's terrible fall, Maurice announced that the cord had been cut.
Two high-spirited boys were always at hand to encourage his taste for flogging, and had it not been for the Marquis, the Abbé's cup would have been full to overflowing. But the Marquis loved not the lean, ogling instructor of his sons, and presently began to assail him with all the abuse of which he was master.
He obviously disliked his little abbe's dress, and we always kept saying, "It's only for the time being, my little fellow." When, after his nomination, the monks of Saint Denis came to make their obeisance to him, he asked if they were devils, and continually covered his face so as not to see them.
"'Another of the number," continued the abbe, without seeming to notice the emotion of Caderousse, "'is called Danglars; and the third, in spite of being my rival, entertained a very sincere affection for me." A fiendish smile played over the features of Caderousse, who was about to break in upon the abbe's speech, when the latter, waving his hand, said, "Allow me to finish first, and then if you have any observations to make, you can do so afterwards.
"Look!" said Helene in her turn, "look at that tiny bluish star! See far away up there. I recognize it night after night. But it dies and fades as the night rolls on." The Abbe's presence no longer annoyed her. With him by her side, she imagined the quiet was deepening around. A few words passed between them after long intervals of silence.
The work that there was to be done did not promise a short sitting; there were thirty or forty poems on the table to be classified numbered, and, as the abbe's servant was his amanuensis, corrected; so that it was eleven o'clock before they thought that it had struck nine. They had just finished and Buvat rose, horrified at having to come home at such an hour.
The abbe's sallow face worked with anger, and for a moment his narrow eyes blazed upon Lecorbeau and seemed to read his very soul. Then, as he glanced across the marsh, his countenance changed. A fanatic zeal illumined it, taking away half its repulsiveness. "Nay!" he cried, "I am not there in the battle.
This M. Condulmer was to be excused for not caring for me, for, having a large share in the St. Angelo Theatre, the failure of the abbe's pieces was a loss to him, as the boxes had to be let at a very low rent, and all men are governed by interested motives.
I did not understand a word, but I led him towards the fatal spot; and there a sight never to be forgotten Edmee was lying on the ground rigid and bathed in blood. Her mare was quietly grazing a few yards away. Patience was standing by her side with his arms crossed on his breast, his face livid, and his heart so full that he was unable to answer a word to the abbe's cries and sobs.
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