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She does not know you, will not recognize you. She has certainly confounded you with some one else." "Perhaps so," said Monte-Cristo; "but women's memories are good, and I warn you that you are taking a grave risk." "None whatever, I assure you. It is more than likely that, in answering your note as she did, Mlle. d' Armilly was influenced solely by caprice.
He had scanned Mlle. d' Armilly carefully through his opera-glass and was thoroughly convinced that she was a perfect stranger to him, although now and then a tone, a gesture or a movement of the body vaguely conveyed a sense of recognition of some tone, gesture or movement he had heard or seen somewhere before.
Mlle. d' Armilly paused suddenly in her excited walk, and, seizing the Captain by the arm with so strong a clutch that a thrill of pain shot through him, cried, menacingly: "If you dare to mention Monte-Cristo's fiendish vengeance to me again, I will banish you forever from my presence!" At that moment one of the officials of the theatre appeared at the dressing-room door.
In the first place, her name is dimly familiar to me, though I cannot remember where I ever heard it, and, in the second place, she flatly refused a visit from me no later than this morning." Joliette looked greatly surprised. "Refused a visit from you, Count! I would not believe it did I not hear it from your own lips. Mlle. d' Armilly must be mad!
Such were the reasons that induced me to bring him to my box to-night, and, surely, if I committed an error, I deserve pardon for my motives!" "I will never pardon you, be your motives what they may!" cried Mlle. d' Armilly, vindictively. "His presence ruined the performance and disgraced me, me, Louise d' Armilly, in the eyes of all Rome!" The Captain stood speechless, appalled by her fury.
As Captain Joliette came in, Léon ran to him and exclaimed amid his tears: "Oh! how could you bring that odious man to your box! See how the very sight of him has affected my poor sister!" At these words Mlle. d' Armilly roused herself and, springing to her feet, faced the young soldier in a fit of uncontrollable rage.
I will call on her as a fellow countryman, and the interview will demonstrate if she is known to me." The Count arose, went to his desk and, seating himself there, wrote the following brief epistle: "Edmond Dantès, Count of Monte-Cristo, desires permission to call upon Mlle. Louise d' Armilly at ten o'clock this morning.
"Yes," stammered Joliette, "I have heard of her, and report says she is a remarkably charming lady as well as a great artiste." "Your tone is enthusiastic, my dear Captain," returned Monte-Cristo, smiling pleasantly. "Perhaps you are acquainted with Mlle. d' Armilly."
The toilet operation completed, Mlle. d' Armilly surveyed herself triumphantly in the mirror. She was well aware that she had riveted her chains very tightly upon her lover, but, for all that, she could tell only by actual experiment if he were sufficiently under her dominion to accede to her wishes concerning the Count of Monte-Cristo.
At this juncture Mlle. d' Armilly, turning from the Captain as if in high displeasure, for it was an important part of her plan to assume a certain degree of coldness towards him at first, touched a bell and immediately her brother Léon and her maid appeared. "Franchette," she said, addressing the latter, "assist me with my street toilet.
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