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In future I shall have no secrets from any one." 1794, Andernach. Before the battle. My dear Laurence, I love you for life, and I wish you to know it. But you ought also to know, in case I die, that my brother, Paul-Marie, loves you as much as I love you.
When Marie-Paul and Paul-Marie reached the age when passions rise to their greatest height could they share, as now, the looks and words and attentions of their cousin? must there not inevitably arise a jealousy between them the consequences of which might be horrible? What would then become of the unity of those beautiful lives, one in heart though twain in body?
Like other twins the Simeuse brothers were so alike that for a long while their mother dressed them in different colors to know them apart. The first comer, the eldest, was named Paul-Marie, the other Marie-Paul. Laurence de Cinq-Cygne, to whom their danger was revealed, played her woman's part well though still a mere child.
"All true; but he is one of the chief personages at the Imperial court, and the king of your department." "He, who voted for the death of Louis XVI. in case the army of Conde entered France!" cried Laurence. "He, who probably advised the murder of the Duc d'Enghien!" exclaimed Paul-Marie.
Shall I never be able to rid you of that villain?" "No, my man, no!" said Paul-Marie. "But we will always take care of you, though you will have to leave our service and the country too. Sell your property here; we will send you to Trieste to a friend of ours who has immense business connections, and he'll employ you until things are better in this country for all of us."
"He has never fought in Germany," added Paul-Marie. "Of whom are you speaking?" asked Laurence. "The Emperor," answered the three gentlemen. The jealous girl threw a disdainful look at her twin lovers, which humiliated them while it rejoiced the heart of Adrien, who made a gesture of admiration and gave her one proud look, which said plainly that he thought only of her, of Laurence.
Laurence was stupefied; the fatal words of the director of the jury hummed in her ears: "In the name of the Emperor and the laws, I arrest the Sieurs Paul-Marie and Marie-Paul Simeuse, Adrien and Robert d'Hauteserre These gentlemen," he added, addressing the men who accompanied him and pointing to the mud on the clothing of the prisoners, "cannot deny that they have spent the greater part of this day on horseback."
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