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Fortunately there was nothing else to do with me, unless they killed me. So I am able to attend her." "Faithful Mathilde! But why is this?" "It is the fulfilment of the Count's threat in case Madame could not clear herself of that false charge." "But the Count knew that Monsieur de Merri was coming here. I told him."
Taking the Rue Poterie, we shall get into the Rue de la Verrerie, and proceeding westward will bring us to the church St. Merri, but to view it properly must enter the Rue St. The interior possesses several interesting objects in architecture, and some inconsistencies, the pulpit is extremely curious, and its effect is very striking.
Instead of which, here you are, the victor by a stroke of good fortune, which you should at least have the good grace to ascribe to me." Whether the poor wretch's argument had any weight with citizen Merri, or whether that worthy patriot merely thought that procrastination would, for the nonce, prove the best policy, it were impossible to say.
The news of what had happened at La Flèche would not have come along the road any sooner than I had done, except by somebody who had travelled by night and had passed me while I slept. In the unlikelihood of there being such a person, I could speak of Monsieur de Merri without much danger of suspicion.
The young fellow looked at me with a sudden sharpness of curiosity, which took me back: but I did not change countenance, and he had repossessed himself by the time he replied: "There is a Monsieur de Merri, who is about as old as you, but he does not live at Montoire. He sometimes comes there."
At a quarter to six o'clock, Monsieur de Gondy, having finished his business, returned to the archiepiscopal palace. At six o'clock the curate of St. Merri was announced. The coadjutor glanced rapidly behind and saw that he was followed by another man. The curate then entered, followed by Planchet. "Your holiness," said the curate, "here is the person of whom I had the honor to speak to you."
"It is true I saw the maid at that window, but I saw also the impossibility of communicating properly with Madame by that channel. So, in spite of your sentinel's vigilance, I crossed the balustrade to the garden, and there had the honour of presenting myself to the Countess. I acquainted her with the fate of Monsieur de Merri.
"No; regarding myself and the reason of my coming to Lavardin." "That is interesting. Let us hear." "It is for you alone." "Oh, to be sure. Captain Ferragant, if you will excuse me, " The Captain, with a shrug, swaggered off to the furthest corner of the hall. "You have been acquainted," I began, "with a certain Monsieur de Merri." The Count's face seemed to jump.
These thoughts, however, were but transient flashings across my sense of the plight in which I had put this unhappy woman by killing Monsieur de Merri. I tried to minimize that plight. "But your fears are exaggerated. Your husband will not dare go too far." "He will dare take my life or lock me up for the rest of my days in a dungeon or I know not what.
Who'll take me that Merri gets the wench in the end?" This from one of the lookers-on, a tall, cadaverous-looking creature, with sunken eyes and broad, hunched-up shoulders, which were perpetually shaken by a dry, rasping cough that proclaimed the ravages of some mortal disease, left him trembling as with ague and brought beads of perspiration to the roots of his lank hair.