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"He is going, is he?" said the sergeant, who seemed to belong to a family in easy circumstances; "I can be happy at my ease! I love Aquilina too well to allow her to belong to that old toad! I, myself, am going to marry Mme. de la Garde!" cried the sergeant. "Old toad!" Castanier murmured piteously. "Here come the master and mistress; hide yourself! Stay, get in here, Monsieur Léon," said Jenny.
Think of an old campaigner like me infatuated enough to tie myself to a petticoat tail!... Why take her? I must leave her behind. Yes, I could make up my mind to it; but I know myself I should be ass enough to go back to her. Still, nobody knows Aquilina. Shall I take her or leave her?" "You will not take her!" cried a voice that filled Castanier with sickening dread.
"Oh, Raphael dear, I should like a set of pearl ornaments!" Euphrasia exclaimed. "If he has any gratitude in him, he will give me a couple of carriages with fast steppers," said Aquilina. "Wish for a hundred thousand a year for me!" "Indian shawls!" "Pay my debts!" "Send an apoplexy to my uncle, the old stick!" "Ten thousand a year in the funds, and I'll cry quits with you, Raphael!"
The audience called for an encore. "Accursed creature!" cried Castanier from his box. Aquilina was laughing till the tears came into her eyes. "Goodness!" she cried, "how funny Perlet is as the Englishwoman!... Why don't you laugh? Everyone else in the house is laughing. Laugh, dear!" she said to Castanier. Melmoth burst out laughing, and the unhappy cashier shuddered.
"This house is mine; I could send for the commissary of police if I chose, and give you up as a man who has hidden himself on my premises, but I would rather let you go; I am a fiend, I am not a spy." "I shall follow him!" said Aquilina. "Then follow him," returned Castanier. "Here, Jenny " Jenny appeared. "Tell the porter to hail a cab for them.
Aquilina, who felt safe nowhere, went at once with the sergeant to the house of one of her friends. But all Léon's movements were suspiciously watched by the police, and after a time he and three of his friends were arrested. The whole story may be found in the newspapers of that day. Castanier felt that he had undergone a mental as well as a physical transformation.
This forest terminates abruptly on the great volcanic wilderness, with its starved growth of unsightly scrub. But Hualalai, though 10,000 feet in height, is covered with Pteris aquilina, mamane, coarse bunch grass, and pukeave to its very summit, which is crowned by a small, solitary, blossoming ohia.
"Eh! why, how can I leave the lover who writes me such sweet little notes?" she asked, pointing to the blackened scrap of paper with a mocking smile. "Is there any truth in it?" asked Castanier. "Have you really a lover?" "Really!" cried Aquilina; "and have you never given it a serious thought, dear? To begin with, you are fifty years old.
"I was in the servants' kitchen, lying behind the stove! They can all confirm it. How I got behind the stove I don't know "Do not get agitated. Did you know Aquilina?" "There's nothing extraordinary about that " "She first liked you and then preferred Klausoff?" "Yes. Ephraim, give us some more mushrooms! Do you want some more tea, Eugraph Kuzmitch?"
"Once I had," she answered. "But I had a rival too in La Guillotine. I have worn something red about me ever since, lest any happiness should carry me away." "Oh, if you are going to get her on to the story of those four lads of La Rochelle, she will never get to the end of it. That's enough, Aquilina.
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