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He did not end his sentence; the north wind blew at that moment with such ferocity that the aide-de-camp hurried on to escape being frozen, and the lips of Major de Sucy stiffened. Silence reigned, broken only by the moans which came from the house, and the dull sound made by the major's horse as it chewed in a fury of hunger the icy bark of the trees with which the house was built.
I prefer to stay here, in spite of the coming storm, and wait for the horse you can send me from the chateau. You've played me a trick, Sucy. We were to have had a nice little hunt not far from Cassan, and beaten the coverts I know. Instead of that, you have kept me running like a hare since four o'clock this morning, and all I've had for breakfast is a cup of milk.
Major de Sucy having warmed himself and satisfied his hunger, fought in vain against the drowsiness that weighed upon his eyes. During this brief struggle he gazed at the sleeping girl who had turned her face to the fire, so that he could see her closed eyelids and part of her forehead.
Shortly before the loss of the fleet the General-in Chief had formed the design of visiting Suez, to examine the traces of the ancient canal which united the Nile to the Gulf of Arabia, and also to cross the latter. The revolt at Cairo caused this project to be adjourned until the month of December. Before his departure for Suez. Bonaparte granted the commissary Sucy leave to return to France.
In vain did Monsieur de Sucy endeavor to find the swathe cut by the rear-guard through the mass of human beings; it was already obliterated, like the wake of a vessel through the sea. They could only creep along, being often stopped by soldiers who threatened to kill their horses. "Do you want to reach the bridge?" said the grenadier. "At the cost of my life at the cost of the whole world!"
Oh! if ever you find yourself in a court of law, I will take care that the day goes against you if you were in the right a hundred times over." The dejected sportsman sat himself down on one of the stumps at the foot of the guide-post, disencumbered himself of his rifle and empty game-bag, and heaved a prolonged sigh. "Oh, France, behold thy Deputies!" laughed Colonel de Sucy.
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.
"You are wealthy; you belong to an old and noble house; you are clever; you have a future before you; everything smiles upon you." "Yes," he answered; "one smile is killing me " On the morrow the lady heard with amazement that M. de Sucy had shot himself through the head that night.
And all the while he followed that relentless enemy through the avenues of the park and down the lonely lane. Overhead the trees of the forest of Sucy, nodding in a gentle breeze, seemed to mock his perplexity. He had not arrived at a definite decision when the river came in sight, and when anon a carriage lanthorn threw a shaft of dim light through the mist-laden air.
Her teeth were prominent and uneven, but white as a dog's. "Hallo, good woman," called M. de Sucy. She came slowly up to the railing, and stared at the two sportsmen with a contorted smile painful to see. "Where are we? What is the name of the house yonder? Whom does it belong to? Who are you? Do you come from hereabouts?"
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