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The carriage had driven off; Trudaine, after lingering long to look after it, had returned hastily to the house; the very dust of the whirling wheels had all dispersed; there was absolutely nothing to see; and yet there stood Monsieur Lomaque at the outer gate; idly, as if he was an independent man calmly, as if no such responsibilities as the calling of Madame Danville's coach, and the escorting of Madame Danville back to Lyons, could possibly rest on his shoulders.
The sight of this document reassured Madame Danville. She bade her son farewell, and departed at last, with one trusty servant, for Marseilles. Danville's intention, in sending his letter to Paris, had been simply to save himself by patriotic bluster.
When it became known that they had been secretly helping this lady to escape from France, and when Danville's own head was consequently in danger, I myself heard him save it by a false assertion that he had been aware of Trudaine's conspiracy from the first "
Till the confession of the male prisoner exposed the fact, I can answer for Danville's not being aware of the real nature of the offenses charged against Trudaine and his sister.
Then it grew to be the one purpose and pursuit of Danville's life cunningly to shape his course so that he might move safely onward with the advancing revolutionary tide he cared not whither, as long as he kept his possessions safe and his life out of danger.
It had been arranged that the bride and bridegroom should pass their honeymoon in Brittany, and then return to Danville's estate near Lyons. The parting was hurried over, as all such partings should be.
He had never quitted his hold of Danville's arm; step by step they advanced together to the place where Trudaine was standing. "You have come into my house, and asked me for my daughter in marriage and I have given her to you," said the general, addressing Danville, quietly.
"No he has not a suspicion of it. He believes as his mother, as every one does that you were both executed the day after the Revolutionary Tribunal sentenced you to death." "Lomaque, you speak positively of that belief of his but you cannot be certain of it." "I can, on the most indisputable, the most startling evidence on the authority of Danville's own act. You have asked me to speak out "
He waited for one of them. It came; he made the most of it; attracted favorably the notice of the terrible Fouquier-Tinville; and won his way to a place in the office of the Secret Police. Meanwhile, Danville's anger cooled down; he recovered the use of that cunning sense which had hitherto served him well, and sent to recall the discarded servant. It was too late.
When a man enters the house of another under false pretenses, and compromises the reputation of his daughter, we old army men have a very expeditious way of making him answer for it. It is just three o'clock now; at five you will find me and one of my friends " He stopped, and looked round cautiously then whispered the rest in Danville's ear threw open the door, and pointed downstairs.
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