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"Yes," said I, "so mysterious that often I have doubted whether I really overheard at all what I am going to ask you about, or only dreamed it. I want you to tell me. The matter is this: When I was coming out of that sleep of a century, the first impression of which I was conscious was of voices talking around me, voices that afterwards I recognized as your father's, your mother's, and your own.
The houses of this town are generally not more than a single storey high, constructed of wood with overhanging shingled roofs, and verandahs in front, which prevent the sun entering the rooms. One evening, being on shore at Port Royal, seated on a bench, I overheard a grey, woolly-headed black man relate the following story. I will give it in good English.
Then the king, who, without our suspecting it, had overheard our conversation, interrupted us by saying, 'Villefort' observe that the king did not pronounce the word Noirtier, but, on the contrary, placed considerable emphasis on that of Villefort 'Villefort, said his majesty, 'is a young man of great judgment and discretion, who will be sure to make a figure in his profession; I like him much, and it gave me great pleasure to hear that he was about to become the son-in-law of the Marquis and Marquise de Saint-Meran.
"Padrieu," swore one of his companions, "I'll wager it is our man." And then, just as I was noticing that Master Abdon, who had also overheard the conversation, was eyeing me curiously, the sergeant stepped up to me, and "What is your name, monsieur?" quoth he. I vouchsafed him a stare of surprise before asking in my turn "How may that concern you?"
From what I have unfortunately overheard, I suspect that the Earl aw disagrees with you on certain points." He averted his face as he handed me the note, and eagerly I tore it open. It was unsigned. It contained but three words: "God spare you!" And so I marched in a tumult of joy to a duel wherein I was expected to be killed. I glanced at the Colonel. His countenance was deeply mournful.
They passed a miserable night, and were every one carried off in a bag to be worried by dogs in the morning! "Cruel, wicked man!" I exclaimed, as with my piebald companion I sought my old shelter behind the canvass in our shed. My exclamation was overheard by old Furry.
Incredible music was issuing from behind the closed blinds of the villa. Music! And the music he had overheard that first night. But Constantia had just gone away; he had seen her. There must be some mistake, some joke. No, no, by another path she had managed to get back to the house. Ay! but what playing.
The death-rale came on; in a few moments he was no more. Victor gave orders for the removal of the corpse, and hurried away. The surgeon, who had changed countenance when he overheard the name in which the dying man had addressed De Mauleon, gazed silently after De Mauleon's retreating form, and then, also quitting the dead, rejoined the group he had quitted.
The public who go to Monte know little of its strange mysteries, or of the odd people who pick up livings there in all sorts of queer ways. "Ah!" exclaimed a man who overheard her. "Mademoiselle has wonderful luck! She won seventy-five thousand francs at the Cercle Prive last night. She won en plein five times running. Dieu! Such luck! And it never causes her the slightest excitement."
It is the custom of many, when they get over a ridge, to begin singing. Nor did I fail, early as was the hour, to sing in passing this the second of my Apennine summits. For I did not like to be overheard singing fantastic songs.
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