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Monsieur Rabourdin, after taking Sebastien to his room, had gone straight to the minister; but the minister was at the Chamber of Deputies. Rabourdin went at once to the Chamber, where he wrote a note to his Excellency, who was at that moment in the tribune engaged in a hot discussion.
Nearly three centuries and a half ago, that doughty pirate and explorer, Sir Francis Drake, combing the Pacific for Spanish galleons, anchored in the bight formed by Point Reyes, on which to-day is one of the richest dairy regions in the world. Here, less than two decades after Drake, Sebastien Carmenon piled up on the rocks with a silk-laden galleon from the Philippines.
Green plants in every corner, a few good pictures hanging on the bare wall, and here and there on oak pedestals two or three of the works of Sébastien Ruys, whose very last work, not exhibited until after his death, was covered with black gauze.
She slept there on the Wednesday of that week, and again on Friday, and she was to have done so yet again on that fateful Sunday, February 9th, but that her servant Sebastien one who had accompanied her from France, and for whom she had a deep affection was that day married, and Her Majesty had promised to be present at the masque that night at Holyrood, in honour of his nuptials.
Fifty francs had been discovered in the box where Sebastien used to put his money, on a piece of the studio furniture well known to its needy frequenters and visited by them without scruple.
Chambouvet, who had lost his wife, the good Marguerite. And here again were three valiant companies; in the first, four daughters, of whom Colette was the eldest; in the second, five sons with Hilary at the head of them; and in the third, a son and daughter only, Sebastien and Christine; the whole, however, forming quite an army, for there were twenty of Mathieu's great-grandchildren in the rear.
Consequently, he is always on the look-out for some fresh expedients for raising money, though he is superbly indifferent about everything, while Sebastien Quillanet, of the banking house of Quillanet Brothers, must have an income of eight thousand francs a year, but is descended from an obscure laborer who managed to secure some of the national property, then he became an army contractor, speculated on defeat as well as victory, and does not know now what to do with his money.
Sebastien had that afternoon committed the great imprudence of carrying into the general office, for the purpose of copying, a paper which contained the most dangerous facts to make known prematurely, namely, a memorandum relating to the officials in the central offices of all ministries, with facts concerning their fortunes, actual and prospective, together with the individual enterprises of each outside of his government employment.
At each separate affair which Rabourdin carefully explained, Baudoyer's little eyes grew big as saucers. "Farewell, monsieur," said Rabourdin at last, with a manner that was half-solemn, half-satirical. Sebastien meanwhile had made up a package of papers and letters belonging to his chief and had carried them away in a hackney coach.
"That letter was our one piece of evidence to connect Sebastien with the crime." "That is why I destroyed it," said Sir Lulworth. "But why should you want to shield him?" cried Egbert; "the man is a common murderer." "A common murderer, possibly, but a very uncommon cook."
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