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Some one has robbed Nicolas Lavilette of five thousand dollars. You dare to charge me with it, curse you. Let me see if there's any more lies on your tongue!" With the violence of the pressure Shangois's tongue was forced out of his mouth. Suddenly a paroxysm of coughing seized Ferrol, and he let go and staggered back against the window ledge. Shangois was transformed an animal.
With an oath, Lavilette went out, banging the door after him. Ferrol shrugged his shoulder with a stoic ennui, and put away the pistols in the trunk. He was thinking how reckless he had been to take them out; and yet he was amused, too, at the risk he had run. A strange indifference possessed him this morning indifference to everything. He was suffering reaction from the previous day's excitement.
With an oath, Lavilette went out, banging the door after him. Ferrol shrugged his shoulder with a stoic ennui, and put away the pistols in the trunk. He was thinking how reckless he had been to take them out; and yet he was amused, too, at the risk he had run. A strange indifference possessed him this morning indifference to everything. He was suffering reaction from the previous day's excitement.
"That fellow will get into trouble if he doesn't mind." "Some new sort of charity down in the East End," one of the little group of club members replied. "Fellow has a lot of branches, and tries to make 'em a sort of family affair. He gets a pile of subscriptions, and declines to publish a balance-sheet. Lavilette seems to think there's something wrong somewhere."
"We've been near a hundred years, we Frenchmen, eating dirt in the country we owned from the start; and I'd rather die fighting to get back the old citadel than live with the English heel on my nose," said Lavilette, with a play-acting attempt at oratory. "Yes, an' dey call us Johnny Pea-soups," said Castine, with a furtive grin.
After the money left the hands of the men who gave it Lavilette and the rest it wasn't theirs. It belonged to a cause. Well, he was the enemy of that cause. All was fair in love and war! There were two ways of doing it.
It was like nothing he had tasted since he used, as a boy, to visit the huntsman's home on his father's estate, and gossip and smoke in that Galway chimney-corner. It was only when he had to face the too impressive adoration of Madame Lavilette that his comfort got a twist.
I am curious. I will admit that. No more." The colour faded from Lady Caroom's cheeks. She shivered a little and rose to her feet. Brooks' face had hardened. "We are very much obliged to you for the money," he said. "As for Lavilette, I had not thought it worth while to reply to him." Lord Arranmore shrugged his shoulders. "Nor should I in your place," he answered.
"Aren't you going to shake hands?" asked Castine, with a sort of sneer on his face. Nicolas thrust his hands down in his pockets. "I'm not so glad to see you as all that," he answered, with a contemptuous laugh. The black eyes of the bear-leader were alive with anger. "You're a damn' fool, Nic Lavilette. You think because I lead a bear eh? Pshaw! you shall see. I am nothing, eh? I am to walk on!
All over the country the rebels had been scattered and beaten, and Bonaventure had been humbled and injured. After the blind injustice of the fearful and the beaten, Nicolas Lavilette and his family were blamed for the miseries which had come upon the place.
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