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I come as the legal representative of the bereaved mother of M. de Vilmorin to demand of you the inquiry that is due." The door behind Andre-Louis opened softly. M. de Lesdiguieres, pale with anger, contained himself with difficulty. "You seek to compel us, do you, you impudent rascal?" he growled. "You think the King's justice is to be driven headlong by the voice of any impudent roturier?
But I have hopes of M. le Marquis." "Hopes of what?" "That he will make what reparation lies in his power. Provide for the widow and the orphans. Why else should he desire to hear me further?" "Unusual condescension," said Andre-Louis, and quoted "Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes." "Why?" asked Philippe. "Let us go and discover unless you consider that I shall be in the way."
"M. l'abbe," she teased him, "when you are in orders I shall take you for my confessor. You have so ready and sympathetic an understanding." "But no curiosity," said Andre-Louis. "You haven't thought of that." "I wonder what you mean, Cousin Andre." "Well you may," laughed Philippe. "For no one ever knows."
"Have they had enough?" he wondered, addressing the question to Le Chapelier. "They have had enough of you, I should think," was the answer. "They will prefer to turn their attention to some one less able to take care of himself." Now this was disappointing. Andre-Louis had lent himself to this business with a very definite object in view.
If anything in what I have said is still obscure to you, I refer you to the game laws, which your lawyer friend there will expound for you at need." With that the gentleman swung round again to face the fire. It appeared to convey the intimation that the interview was at an end. And yet this was not by any means the intimation that it conveyed to the watchful, puzzled, vaguely uneasy Andre-Louis.
"To be sure." Andre-Louis spoke indifferently. "Au revoir, Isaac! You'll come and see me 13 Rue du Hasard. Come soon." "As soon and as often as my duties will allow. They keep me chained here at present." "Poor slave of duty with your gospel of liberty!" "True! And because of that I will come. I have a duty to Brittany: to make Omnes Omnibus one of her representatives in the National Assembly."
You are not grazing! But your beasts are grazing!" "They eat so little," Andre-Louis apologized, and again essayed his ingratiating smile. The sergeant grew more terrible than ever. "That is not the point. The point is that you are committing what amounts to a theft, and there's the gaol for thieves."
He still laughed, though not so well pleased, when he was hit in the second bout. After that he settled down to fight in earnest with the result that Andre-Louis was hit three times in succession. The speed and accuracy of the fencing-master when fully exerting himself disconcerted Andre-Louis' theory, which for want of being exercised in practice still demanded too much consideration.
Understand that, monsieur, and go at once go before I remember that it may be dangerous even to have talked to you and not give information. Go!" He turned on his heel to reenter his cottage, and a wave of hopelessness swept over Andre-Louis. But in a second it was gone. The man must be compelled, and he had the means.
"It requires courage," said the hypocrite. "Of course it does. But you would appear to have plenty." "Hardly enough, perhaps. But I shall do my best." They had come through the vestibule, and although this was lined with eager Blacks waiting for the young man who had insulted them so flagrantly from the rostrum, Andre-Louis' body-guard had prevented any of them from reaching him.
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