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Angelica turned her palfrey aside instantly, and galloped whithersoever it chose to carry her, till she came to a river-side, where she found another of her suitors, Ferragus. She called loudly upon him for help. Rinaldo had recognised her in turn; and though he was on foot, she knew he would be coming after her. Come after her he did.
"Oh, father! father!" "After infinite difficulty, after searching the whole globe," continued Ferragus, "my friends have found me the skin of a dead man in which to take my place once more in social life. A few days hence, I shall be Monsieur de Funcal, a Portuguese count.
Too passionately excited to think of himself, Auguste bowed, went down the stairs, and returned home, striving to find a meaning in the connection of these three persons, Ida, Ferragus, and Madame Jules; an occupation equivalent to that of trying to arrange the many-cornered bits of a Chinese puzzle without possessing the key to the game.
Consequently, the author will now explain, succinctly, the reasons that obliged him to select a title to his book which seems at first sight unnatural. Ferragus is, according to ancient custom, a name taken by the chief or Grand Master of the Devorants.
He reached his home and went up into the sacred chamber; he saw his Clemence on the bed of death, beautiful, like a saint, her hair smoothly laid upon her forehead, her hands joined, her body wrapped already in its shroud. Tapers were lighted, a priest was praying, Josephine kneeling in a corner, wept, and, near the bed, were two men. One was Ferragus.
Orlando had just been brought there by a similar device, that of the apparition of a knight carrying off Angelica; for the supposed Bradamante was equally a deception, and the giant no other than the magician himself. There also were the knights Ferragus, and Brandimart, and Grandonio, and King Sacripant, all searching for something they had missed.
I have now come to ascertain from you the present residence of the extraordinary being who exercises such a baneful effect on your life and mine. On my return home yesterday, after listening to your avowals, I received that letter." Jules gave him the forged letter. "This Ferragus, this Bourignard, or this Monsieur de Funcal, is a demon!" cried Maulincour, after having read it.
"Don't know him." "Doesn't Monsieur Ferragus live here?" "Haven't such a name in the house." "But, my good woman " "I'm not your good woman, monsieur, I'm the portress." "But, madame," persisted the baron, "I have a letter for Monsieur Ferragus." "Ah! if monsieur has a letter," she said, changing her tone, "that's another matter. Will you let me see it that letter?"
"You have betrayed me " "Ah! Jules, you think so now, but soon you will know all." "But this Ferragus, this convict whom you go to see, a man enriched by crime, if he does not belong to you, if you do not belong to him " "Oh, Jules!" "Speak! Is he your mysterious benefactor? the man to whom we owe our fortune, as persons have said already?" "Who said that?" "A man whom I killed in a duel."
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