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With this sum you can become an independent woman, and your daughter will never be reproached with having been, in her childhood, a member of Cythera's Brigade." Countess Themire deliberated a few moments; then she asked: "May I not kiss my daughter farewell?" "Leave your kiss with me, and I will deliver it faithfully!" smilingly responded the marquis. "How can you jest at such a moment?
De Fervlans took up his hat, but turned at the door to say, in a meaning tone: "Marquis d'Avoncourt, we shall forget that you are a prisoner so long as it shall please you to remain obstinate. As for the fugitives, Cythera's Brigade will capture them, sooner or later. Au revoir!" That same night the old nobleman was removed to the prison at Ham.
Should she leave Amélie in her present disagreeable position, a member of "Cythera's Brigade," or should she send for her, and confess to the man whose respect she desired to retain that the child was her daughter, and that she was a widow? Could she tell him what she had once been? Would he continue to respect, to love her? Five millions of francs!
The police authorities really employ a number of beautiful women, handsome young men, and clever children to spy out and entrap suspected persons? 'Cythera's Brigade' really exists?" "You had the pleasure of meeting that celebrated brigade this morning," replied De Fervlans. "And those grateful men and women, who gathered about me with tearful eyes and sympathetic words "
The boy prince, my chiefest care, makes ready at his dear father's summons to go to the Sidonian city, carrying gifts that survive the sea and the flames of Troy. Him will I hide deep asleep in my holy habitation, high on Cythera's hills or in Idalium, that he may not know nor cross our wiles.
"Were members of Cythera's Brigade," supplemented the marquis. "And the mistress of the house the beautiful woman who fainted at sight of her child?" "Is the fair Cythera's substitute! She taught her little daughter the part she played so successfully."
The members of Cythera's Brigade took great pains to make outsiders believe that they never troubled themselves about that half of the world which was in shadow that half called politics. In the salon of the fascinating Countess Themire Dealba not a word was heard relating to affairs of state.
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