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Then she slowly pushed the door open with gentle motion, to save her flickering candle from being again extinguished. For a moment all was still. "Amante, may I ask what brings you here into my private room?" He stood between her and the dead body of a man, from which ghastly heap I shrank away as it almost touched me, so close were we all together.
Amante sat a little above me, and made me lay my head on her lap.
Amante could hardly have been gone a minute before I felt an additional gloom before the window, and heard soft movements outside soft, but resolute, and continued until the end was accomplished, and the window raised.
"Now," said Amante, "all this proves that M. de la Tourelle has suspected that you would go back to the nest in which you were reared, and that he has been there, and found that you have not yet returned; but probably he still imagines that you will do so, and has accordingly engaged your sister-in-law as a kind of informant.
If madame will still be guided by me and, my child, I beg of you still to trust me, said Amante, breaking out of her respectful formality into the way of talking more natural to those who had shared and escaped from common dangers more natural, too, where the speaker was conscious of a power of protection which the other did not possess 'we will go on to Frankfort, and lose ourselves, for a time, at least, in the numbers of people who throng a great town; and you have told me that Frankfort is a great town.
A rider had come up to the forge and dismounted, leading his horse in to be re-shod. The broad red light of the forge-fire had revealed the face of the rider to Amante, and she apprehended the consequence that really ensued. The rider, after some words with the blacksmith, was ushered in by him into the house-place where we sat.
I drew myself to the side of the table farthest from the corpse, with as much slow caution as if I really could have feared the clutch of that poor dead arm, powerless for evermore. I softly raised myself up, and stood sick and trembling, holding by the table, too dizzy to know what to do next. I nearly fainted, when a low voice spoke when Amante, from the outside of the door, whispered, "Madame!"
But just as I pressed forward to examine the letters, the candle which Amante held, caught in some draught, went out, and we were in darkness.
It was a more complete and total separation than I had ever anticipated when I married, and something of my home and of my life previous to my marriage I told the good Amante; for I had not been brought up as a great lady, and the sympathy of any human being was precious to me. Amante listened with interest, and in return told me some of the events and sorrows of her own life.
The money from the sale of my ring was almost exhausted, and Amante was a stranger in the place, speaking only French, moreover, and the good Germans were hating the French people right heartily. However, we succeeded better than our hopes, and even laid by a little against the time of my confinement.
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