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"I can hardly talk to you about it " I began awkwardly; but the duchess saved me the trouble of finishing my sentence, for she broke in angrily: "Oh, as if I believe that! Mr. Aycon, why are you going?" "I'm going to see that the duke doesn't " "Oh, you are very anxious and very good, aren't you? Yes, and very chivalrous! Mr. Aycon, I don't care what he does;" and she looked at me defiantly.
Aycon, know that I have also a cause. Will this morning suit you?" "It is hard on two now." "Precisely. We have time for a little rest; then I will order the carriage and we will drive together to Pontorson." "You mean that I should stay in your house?" "If you will so far honor me. I wish to settle this affair at once, so as to be moving." "I can but accept."
The presence of Mlle. de Berensac would have infinitely increased our pleasure; but how would it have diminished our crime?" "I wish I had known you sooner, Mr. Aycon," said the duchess; "then I needn't have asked him at all." I bowed, but I was content with things as they were. The duchess sat with the air of a child who has been told that she is naughty, but declines to accept the statement.
Don't you think so, Mr. Aycon? Just a little, you know." "Why?" was all I found to say. The reason was not clear to me. "Why, in the first place, because you can't fight till your arm's well oh, yes, of course Armand was going to fight you and, in the second place, you can and must stay here. There's no harm in it, while you're ill, you see; Armand can't say there is.
Certainly the duchess did not look very alarmed. But in regard to what she said, the old lady was bound to have a word. "What is Mr. Aycon to you, my child?" said she solemnly. "He is nothing nothing at all to you, my child." "Well, I want him to be less than nothing to Mlle. Delhasse," said the duchess, with a pout for her protector and a glance for me. "Mlle.
There was a helpless effort at a shrug of his shoulders, a scornful slight smile on his lips, and a look of recognition, almost of friendliness, almost of humor, in his eyes, as he said to me, who still held his head: "Mon Dieu, but I've made a mess of it, Mr. Aycon!"
Gustave and I looked at one another. There was a pause. At last I drew a chair back from the table, and said: "If madame is ready " The duchess whisked her handkerchief away and sprang up. She gave one look at Gustave's grave face, and then, bursting into a merry laugh, caught me by the arm, crying: "Isn't it fun, Mr. Aycon? There's nobody but me! Isn't it fun?"
"It is most important that I should watch what is going on at my present hotel," said I gravely; for I did not wish to move. "You are the most " began the duchess. But this bit of character-reading was lost. Slow but sure, the Mother Superior was at our elbows. "Adieu, Mr. Aycon," said she. I felt sure that she must manage the nuns admirably.
"True," said the duke; and his eyes met mine, and we both smiled. A few minutes ago it had not seemed likely that I should share a joke even a rather grim joke with him. "Mr. Aycon," said he, "are you inclined to help me to look into this matter? It may be only the girl's fancy " "No, no; I heard plainly," Suzanne protested eagerly. "But one can never trust these rascally men-servants."
But he stood looking at me composedly, with a smile on his lips. "Ah!" said he, "it is my friend Mr. Aycon. Bontet, bring me some wine, too, that I may drink with my friend." And he added, addressing me: "You will find our good Bontet most obliging. He is a tenant of mine, and he will do anything to oblige me and my friends. Isn't it so, Bontet?"
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