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Sucy turned and saw the young aide-de-camp by the light of the flames. "Oh, it is all over with us," he answered. "They have eaten my horse. And how am I to make this sleepy general and his wife stir a step?" "Take a brand, Philip, and threaten them." "Threaten the Countess?..."
One thought that could not be stifled haunted Philip "If I go to sleep, we shall all die; I will not sleep," he said to himself. He slept. After an hour's slumber M. de Sucy was awakened by a hideous uproar and the sound of an explosion. The remembrance of his duty, of the danger of his beloved, rushed upon his mind with a sudden shock. He uttered a cry like the growl of a wild beast.
On the 21st of August Bonaparte established at Cairo an institute of the arts and sciences, of which he subsequently appointed me a member in the room of M. de Sucy, who was obliged to return to France, in consequence of the wound he received on board the flotilla in the Nile.
In two hours the Russians will begin to move, and you will see the Beresina covered with corpses a second time, I can tell you. You haven't a horse, and you cannot carry the Countess, so come along with me," he went on, taking his friend by the arm. "My dear fellow, how am I to leave Stephanie?" Major de Sucy grasped the Countess, set her on her feet, and shook her roughly; he was in despair.
At one o'clock in the morning, Grosjean himself was thankful to get back to bed, having satisfied the commissary that he was not a dangerous conspirator. But of anyone even remotely approaching the description of the ci-devant Comtesse de Sucy, or of any man called Bertin, there was not the faintest trace. But no feeling of discomfort ever lasted very long with citizen Tournefort.
Monsieur de Sucy has received a violent shock; his passions are strong; but, in him, the first blow decides all. To-morrow he may be entirely out of danger." The doctor was not mistaken; and the following day he allowed the marquis to see his friend. "My dear d'Albon," said Philippe, pressing his hand, "I am going to ask a kindness of you.
"And lose the ci-devant Comtesse de Sucy and the man Bertin," retorted Chauvelin with sudden fierceness. "Bertin, who can be none other than that cursed Englishman, the " He checked himself, seeing Tournefort was gazing down on him, with awe and bewilderment expressed in his lean, hatchet face. "You are losing sight of Rateau, citizen," Chauvelin continued calmly. "What is he doing now?"
"To Barras, Sucy, Madame Tallien, my heart-felt friendship; to Madame Chateau Renaud, kindest regards; for Eugene and Hortense, my true love. "I have just now received your letter, which you break off, as you say, to go to the country; and then, you assume a tone as if you were envious of me, who am here nearly overwhelmed by affairs and by exertion! Ah, my dear friend, ... it is true, I am wrong.
"He was over-tired, and that saved him," and with a few directions as to the patient's treatment, he went to prepare a composing draught himself. M. de Sucy was better the next morning, but the doctor had insisted on sitting up all night with him. "I confess, Monsieur le Marquis," the surgeon said, "that I feared for the brain.
But priceless works of art had no market in Paris these days; and the property of real value the Sucy diamonds namely which had excited the cupidity or the patriotic wrath of citizens Gourdon and Tournefort could nowhere be found.
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