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The soldier made a sign, as if to beg the girl to let him speak, and resumed, looking full at Rodin: "You are cunning, but I'm no raw recruit." "I cunning?" said Rodin, with a sanctified air. "Yes, very. You think to puzzle me with your fine phrases; but I'm not to be caught in that way. Just listen to me. Some of your band of black-gowns stole my cross; you returned it to me.
What you have to do is very simple, and, by the blessing of heaven, this operation will save the life of our dear Father Rodin." The three black-gowns cast up their eyes piously, and then bowed altogether, like one man. Rodin, indifferent to what was passing around him, never ceased an instant to write or reflect.
The soldier made a sign, as if to beg the girl to let him speak, and resumed, looking full at Rodin: "You are cunning, but I'm no raw recruit." "I cunning?" said Rodin, with a sanctified air. "Yes, very. You think to puzzle me with your fine phrases; but I'm not to be caught in that way. Just listen to me. Some of your band of black-gowns stole my cross; you returned it to me.
I brought them all with me to thank and bless him. We were within a hundred yards of the house belonging to the black-gowns " "Ali, the black-gowns!" said Dagobert, with a gloomy air. "Then some mischief will happen. I know them." "You are not mistaken, father," answered Agricola, with a sigh. "I was running on with my comrades, when I saw a carriage coming towards us.
'Father, said M. Hardy to him, 'have the goodness to see M. Baudoin to the door. So saying, he waved his hand to me in token of farewell, and retired to the next chamber. All was over; he is lost to us forever." "Yes," said Dagobert, "those black-gowns have enchanted him, like so many others." "In despair," resumed Agricola, "I returned hither with M. Dupont.
The marshal was reproached with cowardice for not taking vengeance on this priest, the persecutor of his wife and children, the insolent mocker at his misfortunes." "And from whom do you suspect these letters to come, father?" "I cannot tell it is that which turns one's brain. They must come from the enemies of the marshal, and he has no enemies but the black-gowns."
But this carriage, of which you speak?" "On seeing it start from the house of the black-gowns," replied Agricola, "my heart sank within me; and, by an impulse stronger than myself, I rushed to the horses' heads, calling on my comrades to help me. But the postilion knocked me down and stunned me with a blow from his whip. When I recovered my senses, the carriage was already far away."
Florine's confessions unveiled to me the new plots of the enemies of my scattered family, dispersed by sorrows and cruel losses; it was my duty to warn them of their danger, and to unite them against the common enemy. I had been the victim of odious manoeuvres: it was my duty to punish their authors, for fear that, encouraged by impunity, these black-gowns should make other victims.
But this carriage, of which you speak?" "On seeing it start from the house of the black-gowns," replied Agricola, "my heart sank within me; and, by an impulse stronger than myself, I rushed to the horses' heads, calling on my comrades to help me. But the postilion knocked me down and stunned me with a blow from his whip. When I recovered my senses, the carriage was already far away."
Oh! these black-gowns are implacable, and their power is great!" said Adrienne, shuddering. "It is fearful, lady." "But do not be alarmed, dear child; you see, that the arms of the wicked have turned against themselves; for the moment I knew the cause of your flight, you became dearer to me than ever.
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